Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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When war was declared last April all arrangements for the annual Freshman social activities, such as the Class Dinner and the Jubilee, were called off, and as a consequence the only gathering of 1920 heretofore has been a smoker held in mid-winter last year. At present there are but 400 of the original class of 600 still in College, and many are due to enter the service within the next few months...
...first year of our war, to render praise, not only to the men who have gone, but to those institutions of the University which have made our record such a notable one. First and foremost of them all must stand Phillips Brooks House, our great pillar of social service, growing to meet new needs and constantly adding to the many activities of the past...
...rarely asked to Boston dances, and when thus allowed to mingle with older men he knew how to keep in the background. So far, this year's extra hospitality has been misspent for, instead of appreciating such kindness, the underclassman has taken the attitude that no activity, college or social, can exist without him. And so, haughty and proud of his supposed fame, like the "rah-rah boy" posters, pipe in mouth, he struts through the Yard sometimes even condescending to answer the greeting of the upperclassman. To say that this is true of all present Freshmen is of course...
France could be much speeded on the road to normal conditions if the strain of rebuilding were shifted to less tired shoulders. It will be hard enough for her to return to every-day social and economic life without the added burden of having a large part of her territory to rebuild. Our cities, which will never feel the strain of war to such a degree, can rebuild the devastated towns with half the effort it would cost the French. The results would be immediate and lasting...
...most amazing social change which the war has brought about is the transformation of our army from a small command of miscellaneous volunteers into a gigantic union of the fighting citizens of the Nation. More than a million men, selected for their youth, their courage, and their virility, are to present America to Europe in the guise of warriors, and in all the pictures which we have been permitted to see of them they are so unmistakably of the New World that only a glance is needed to distinguish them from a group of French or British soldiers, fine, upstanding...