Word: rowe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is another scene of which I am reminded. One afternoon in September of 1918, I stood on a hill north of Verdun and looked up and down a great valley. As far as the eye could reach, there were row on row of little white crosses. More than six million of the finest men of Europe lie under those crosses in France and Flanders, and on the other fields of battle. Back of those crosses and back of those boys still in the hospital wards, there are others who seem to rise. They are the young women of Europe...
Today the show at Cambridge closes with the Bear-baiting for which the audience is always expectant. Advance press agents have written of famous cases in the past where the Bear has run amuck and clawed the boys in the front row. They have also promised that today's Bear is unusually ferocious and his claws unusually sharp. Still the audience is curious and, suppressing all fears, is anxious to see the show out. And there will be plenty of applause to welcome the Bear...
...striking development in the organization of crew at the University. Foremost in this record of growth stand the comparatively recent systems of practice for the dormitory and class crew candidates. Without the detailed arrangements which are now in force, the great majority of men would get no opportunity to row at all, and it was on this account that, through the efforts of Dr. Howe and his assistants, the work of developing these departments has been taken up so vigorously during the past three years...
Important privileges are being daily usurped by an ever growing body of thoughtless students. It is becoming impossible to sleep, not only in one's own room but even in the New Lecture Hall. What justification is there for the man in the row behind who, in going to sleep himself, prevents his neighbors from doing so by his snoring? Nor does he confine himself to disturbing passively his neighbors and the professor. As soon as the bell rings, in fact often a few minutes before, he ostentatiously awakens with loud, prolonged clapping...
...clap, as a child does, because of happiness or glee, or does he believe in latter-day advertising methods? Formerly applause here in College was given in a miserly fashion for lectures of exceptional brilliance. Now it comes, spontaneous and carefree, with all the joyous abandon of a front-row benchman at a political meeting. Some do not even have the decency to wait until the lecturer has departed before showing their enthusiasm...