Word: reds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Cablegrams announce that the most elaborate welcome yet given to any American Red Cross section arriving in London was that accorded the physicians and nurses of the Harvard Medical Unit which recently reached England. The welcome was in the form of a luncheon given by Sir Thomas Lipton at that gentleman's country house...
...order to raise money for the American Red Cross, and secondarily for the University Reserve Officers Training Corps, a mammoth production of the masque "Caliban, By the Yellow Sands," written by Percy MacKaye '97, is to be given in the Stadium from June 28 to July 9, on every evening except Sunday. Over 5,000 men, women, and children, drawn from all parts of Greater Boston, will participate in the performances...
...seating capacity of 14,000 in the Stadium itself, and boxes built around the running track will accommodate 2,000 more. It is expected that at least $200,000 will be cleared above expenses, of which amount the greater part is to be donated to the American Red Cross, the balance going to the University Reserve Officers' Training Corps...
...course in such service there is more opportunity for accident or fatality. The peaceful are not spared by the blind wrath of artillery fire, nor do submarines pay homage to the Red Cross. Yet such added danger over the surety of life in peace at home will count not at all with those whose faith is so far above that granted to most poor mortals...
...that has gone. The uniform cap has replaced the gallant and beribboned straw. No more on candid headwear in the Yard is seen the vertical black and red stripes of the crew-man's ribbon. No more the horizontal stripes of the hockey man. Where are the straws of yesteryear? Where is the glory that once was hatbands? Where are our ancient symbols...