Word: parted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Barre on the financial map,--that is the truth of the matter. Allowing that each man spent ten dollars during his stay, Barre now owns ten thousand dollars more than when we arrived. Fords are now seen where the work-horse was once supreme. Yet, although a large part of the wealth which Barre possesses was once lodged in our trouser pockets, we must commend the town. It invested our capital in the best way possible; it bought Liberty Bonds. If the money still in our possession is as well laid out as that we poured into Barre's coffers...
...course of instruction consists of 16 weeks of intensified training in every branch of the electrical science in any way conected with radio work. During the first few weeks the instruction covers only the most elementary portions of the work, whereas in the latter part of the four months' training all of the time is spent in gaining speed and accuracy in operating the radio telegraph and in the theory and practice of the various instruments used by radio operators. At the end of the course a sailor is prepared to assume the duties and responsibilities of either a land...
...sometimes early evening, the men are following strictly a schedule until "lights out" at 10 o'clock. Drill for the two battalions is held for a short time each afternoon and soon a review on Soldiers' Field every Saturday morning at 10 o'clock will be a regular part of the week's program. The importance of drill, however, at the Radio School, is not so great as in other camps of a different nature, for the long hours spent in radio work leaves only a short time for other things. Then, too, from the character of his work...
...members of this School for Ensigns will be housed in Holyoke House where recreation and reading rooms as well as sleeping quarters will be provided. The administrative offices of the school will be in Dance Hall, a part of which has been remodelled for this purpose. A start was made on the final preparation of both Holyoke House and Dane Hall yesterday...
...offered to us. Many of the Harvard boys are serving under arms at the battle front and adding new lustre to the fame of the college they represent, and to those left behind it is a duty to see that its lustre is not lessened by failure on their part to do those things that are next in importance to the carrying of arms...