Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...number of men who have reported so far is encouraging, since the regular work will not start until this afternoon, when the entire squad assembles on the Soldiers Field rinks if the ice still holds good. The management expects that there will be nearly 80 candidates out this afternoon, and there will be a little difficulty in accommodating them all on the two rinks that are now in shape...
Such a situation was perhaps to be expected. Even before the war the practical arts were in the ascendancy. Now as a self-evident result of the war they are still more in the ascendancy. It is not an unhealthy condition, and it will not be a positively unhealthy condition until the liberal arts colleges show actual losses...
Many of us are inclined to forget our social responsibility. There was a convention in the Middle Ages that the privileged class--the nobility--owed a certain debt to the poor. The titled nobility, we hope, has dropped out of our civilization; but there is still a privileged class; and while all men and women have a duty to the community, those who receive the most from the community have in return the greatest obligation. The danger is lest college men forget this obligation and regard college only as a help to personal advancement. Dr. Daniel Hunt Clare, speaking...
...General Court, which at the time was there meeting because of a small-pox epidemic in Boston. After the battle of Lexington the students were removed to concord, and there recited in the court house, the hall becoming a barracks for the Continental soldiers, while Wadsworth House, also still standing, became the headquarters of General Washington. In 1827 Massachusetts was renovated and remodelled, and in 1870 remodelled again, but small changes only were made upon the exterior. Among those of the old days who roomed in this hall were James Freeman Clarke, George Frisbie Hoar, Robert G. Shaw, and Jared...
...talking of social unrest the President hits the nail on the head when he says that it is caused by the continued state of war; by the fact that peace is still in abeyance. Nothing that the President has said is truer than that the causes of the present turmoil "are superficial rather than deep-seated," and that the ratification of the Treaty will remove many of those causes...