Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...directors of the Boston Chamber of Commerce placed their approval on the Plattsburg idea during the past week when they voted to issue a letter urging employers to do all that they find practicable to encourage the enlistment of men in their employment in the camps, which, they say, deserve the earnest support of all who desire more adequate national defence...
...previous letter I urged that we owe it both to the public and to ourselves to make clear the reasons for drilling on Sunday. It did not occur to me to say, as your correspondent of yesterday suggests, that the order for Sunday drill was unjust...
...aside today for the purpose, and has accordingly scheduled a contest with the Phi Beta Kappa nine for this afternoon. Weary with intellectual toil, the scholars will creep to Soldiers Field in time to meet the journalistic juggernaut at about 3.30 o'clock. Partisans of the superlative students say that they will show a lot of inside baseball; but this does not discourage the CRIMSON. Past experience shows that Phi Beta Kappa baseball is usually so far inside that it can hardly be recognized as baseball...
...Flying Corps has decided to postpone for two weeks its intended trip of instruction through the two B. F. Sturtevant aeroplane factories at Jamaica Plain and at Hyde Park. Ex-Governor Foss, owner of the plant, has written to say that in two weeks the visiting members of the Corps will have for their inspection a 250-horse-power aeroplane engine on the testing stand and a number of monoplanes under construction...
...seen the CRIMSON team in action can doubt the outcome. The delightful delivery of Steamship Hall will hardly be missed, for Richmond, of the Rhode Island league, is perfection in pitching, while Bishop, the other member of the reversible battery, is no less adroit. Of the candidates, we say nothing, for we believe in kindness...