Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Three-score pages and ten of the December Advocate are abroad in our midst. True, it opens with a reprint of "France," by John Macy '99, and for the sake of that "France" we could endure much. If you call a dog the Harvard Advocate, undergraduates will be inclined to love it; but unless the standards of the present Advocate not only improve but suffer a sea-change, even the faithful will fall off from...
...that time Professor Davison, at the organ, assisted by Miss Elsa Alves, soprano, will render the following program: Chorale in A minor, Franck Prayer, Ropartz Professor Davison. "Come, Sweet Death," Bach Alleluja, Mozart Elsa Alves. Canon, Schumann Bourree, Handel Andante (Sixth Symphony), Widor Professor Davison. "For a Dream's Sake," A. W. Kramer Hindoo Slumber Song, Harriet Ware Japanese Death Song, Earl Cranston Sharp Pierott, Dagmar de Rubner Elsa Alves. Pastorale, Dubois Grand Choeur, Guilmant Professor Davison...
After we have signed our future allowances away for the sake of the bettering of Phillips Brooks House and in the cause of the Y. M. C. A., we are again reminded that riches are but temporary. This time it is the Bursar who calls for $50 by night-time,--penalty for non-payment, no more relations with the University. Old clothes, furniture and the other essentials of a happy existence all must be pawned to appease the all-powerful Bursar. By this time we are supposed to have bought fifty-dollars worth of knowledge from the University...
...effective, must be immediate. The danger is so instant and overwhelming as to leave no time for deliberation. Already the French cabinet is considering what aid France can give her ally; but France is unable to assume this new responsibility alone. All must help, not only for Italy's sake, but for the cause of the Allies...
That was two days before war. Lightning, chained or free, strikes quick. This is sixty days after war. The thunder of our prowess is still echoing, although no lightning has demolished Germany. Let us hope, for the sake of humor, that before the chronicle runs into the 200th day, it may be recorded that "American arms have met the German arms in honorable combat, and driven them victoriously back...