Word: returned
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...worse. It is a mighty responsibility, this thing of determining the future history of the country, and those first voters, boys and girls, who don the habiliments of full-fledged citizenship when they take their first ballots in their hands and step into the voting booths owe in return for the new privilege that hence-forth is to be theirs, all the serious thought that they can bring to bear upon the choice offered to them. Four years ago they were on the threshold of their majority. Today they have crossed it. Four years ago their interest in politics...
...avenue to Boylston street to Washington to Essex to LincoIn to High to Batterymarch to State to Washington to School to Beacon to Arlington to Commonwealth avenue to the armory. The men will remain at the armory as long as their services are required in unpacking the equipment, will return to their respective homes at night, and will report at the armory not later than 8.30 every morning until the preparations for muster out are finished. This will take at least a week and possibly longer...
...college are always a sure measure of students capabilities. Yet nothing argued on this score can go to defeat the practical truth that men who achieve fairly good rating in college are so acquiring about the most tangible evidence of sincere purpose and consistent work which they could possibly return to the men who are generously paying the expenses of their education. Evidently also the Harvard Clubs of the country have discovered good means of determining who are the deserving, boys of their community. The good reports made of the scholarship men are not all the result of the students...
...verse "Return," by Mr. Norris and Mr. Cutler's "A Few Friends," are easily the best. Mr. Norris has an economy of phrase and tranquility of thought truly remarkable, while Mr. Cutler's delicacy of thought and rhythms remind us of the writers of the French Renaissance. Mr. Putnam, celebrating Milton, has some truly beautiful lines toward the end of the poem, but the beginning is somewhat stilted, and the beginning of a piece is of such enormous artistic import that it over-clouds the beauty of thought which in this instance is surely present...
...further strengthening of the squad will be effected next week by the return from the Mexican border of E. P. Hamilton '18, also one of last year's veterans...