Word: sons
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...begin promptly at 12.30, but will be preceded by a reception at 12 o'clock. At 1 o'clock there will be speeches by His Excellency Calvin Coolidge, Governor of Massachusetts; William Roscoe Thayer, '81, who is the leading biographer of President Roosevelt, and the Honorable James R. Garfield, son of President Garfield and member of President Roosevelt's cabinet...
Richard Norton, son of the late Professor Charles Eliot Norton '46, was the founder of the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Service, which was the first American Unit to aid the allied armies in the great war. For nearly a year the only American uniforms known overseas were those of the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Service, and all that the French had to judge this country by was the work of the men in this unit. At that time, many undergraduates left the University in order to join Norton's corps and have since played an important part in the entire history...
...dollars,--to those students of the Sophomore, Junior and Senior classes, who show their excellence in reciting a selection in poetry or prose which shall be chosen by the donor or those appointed by him." They were established in 1915 by Dr. Francis Henry Wade in memory of his son, Lee Wade...
...story is of an English father and mother whose son has been killed at the front. All the mother's actions outwardly portray her loss, she is obsessed with the idea of mourning and each night gathers her family together believing that they can receive spiritual messages from the son. The father--George Arliss--however, goes about his business pretty much as before, and people think he does not feel his son's death; indeed his wife, remembering the lack of demonstrative affection between father and son, thinks her husband unable to receive messages from the dead...
...more to the play than the obvious moral; that true sorrow takes refuge not outwardly but inwardly, and that death is faced in but one way by going on with our daily life and habits. The swinging of the door that gives entrance to the voice of the son, though we see no body; the way in which the voice moves about the room,--we are convinced by it all until the voice begins to tell how he died and mentions life after death. In that instant the picture is man made; we feel it to be mere speculation...