Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tomorrow there will be no classes; and a great number of Freshmen who have not had the good fortune of a codfish origin will wonder why there are no classes. Some few of these will have heard of Patriot's Day something as they have heard of Bastille Day; but to others the Lexington-Concord commemoration will be a complete novelty in the way of vacation alibis. To all, whether they admit it or not, the holiday will constitute a nuisance and an undesirable distraction...
...With Patriot's Day just around the corner, the student not on the Dean's List is compelled to regard its advent with some apathy. He whom the Fates frowned on at the midyears has long since received a neatly printed notice from the Dean's Office reminding him that due to his failure to maintain a B average he must be particularly careful not to cut classes around holiday time. The implied threat is the big stick of probation for the feckless undergraduate who is careless enough to bid defiance to University Hall on this momentous question by slipping...
...alone have dared to point out the dire need for air defense of London. You have muzzled others who have deplored this shameful neglect. You have treated my patriotic gesture with a contempt such as no other government would have been guilty of toward a patriot...
...night long crowds lined the Rue Royale and the squares before the Royal Palace and the Church of St. Gudule. Before dawn the roofs were black with watchers and one exhausted patriot had fallen out of a tree and been killed. Soon police and soldiers began to line the route along which Albert's body would pass. About breakfast time hawkers were passing up & down selling rolls and chocolate bars and mirrors on sticks for short people to see over the crowd...
Once a year the Board visits the Academy, inspects its educational machinery, advises its faculty, issues a report. A patriot is each educator. Not for him are battleship junkets, dress parades, honorariums. For his annual trip to Annapolis he receives only his traveling expenses. When, as often occurs, he goes at other times for a more thorough, individual study he pays...