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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...instance of the New Englanders as an offset to the French fortress of Louisburg; the trade relations of the two towns have always been close; and at the time of the Revolution many of the prominent citizens of Boston--the Tories or Loyalists--emigrated to Halifax; and fine old Boston names--some of them extinct here--are to be found on the tablets of the interesting eighteenth-century Church of St. Paul. The generosity of the United States to their unlucky neighbor has been so notable that it ought to warm the hearts of all Canadians toward...
...probable that if there is sufficient interest shown, informal tournaments and series may be arranged in these sports. Rowing machines, chest-weights and punching-bags will also be available for the use of students, as well as some of the other lighter apparatus that has been transferred from the old Hemenway Gymnasium...
...whether or not the hand of an enemy had anything to do with it. But it is evident that the loss is terrific; that thousands must suffer as well as mourn; and that the chief sally-port of the new world's war against the Central Empires of the old world has been virtually destroyed. And whether or not they had any hand in this calamity, how fiercely our enemies will rejoice at the sorrow and destruction that have befallen...
...old sort of dream to wonder what would happen if great men of former times came back to look on the present. We have been told what Abraham Lincoln would have thought of the war; we have heard what opinion Louis XIV would have held of the initiative and referendum; it has even been suggested how Isaiah would have received Billy Sunday. Strangely, however, no one has ever informed us of Phillips Brooks' words, should he enter Phillips Brooks House. For the Bishop was an inveterate smoker. He purchased a brand of long, black cigars, which were not labeled Colorado...
...value for the well soldier behind the lines and in the rest camps, and also for the ten million homeless, ill-fed and wandering children, without parents, schools or churches. For these children the Red Cross is doing work of untold importance. It is also taking care of the old people who are being sent into France by the thousands, without property, hungry and almost without clothing...