Word: soberness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fulfill his military duty towards her immediately. Four or five hundred have already signed up for the Plattsburg Camps. Others cannot attend the camps and yet have had no military training. These are the men who should pause and regard the facts of our relations with Mexico in a sober light. Rushing to enlist in a burst of patriotic enthusiasm will do no good until the government at Washington has made the final decision and the need for untrained as well as for trained men is expressed...
...task of vocational guidance is at our door. Perhaps no greater work ever confronted a university than that of frankly and consciously organizing its machinery and methods for developing and molding the rich talent of its students and directing it into those branches of public and private service where sober judgment, trained thinking, moderation and capacity for intelligent leadership are essential. This is a service to the students incidentally and to democracy fundamentally...
...poetic form in "Though Wisdom Dies." Wisdom is a theme which cannot be completely developed in two short stanzas nor can imagination be "uncurled small as forget-me-nots." The characteristics of the verse of this number are cleverness, insight, a sure, light touch, and a sense of the sober humor of the contrasts of life...
Lifo comments editorially on the diary of the late Mr. Charles Francis Adams, quoting: "I have tried Boston socially on all sides; I have summered it and I have wintered it; tried it drunk, and tried it sober; and drunk or sober there's nothing in it save Boston." The paper continues on its own responsibility...
...called "remote and imperfectly civilized places" are more active here proportionately than New Englanders, and since Boston's best profit as much from association with the "imperfectly civilized" as the latter profit from Back Bay's chill influence, some good in Harvard is not derived from Boston, drunk or sober...