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...loss of friends too keenly to enter into the usual Yuletide spirit. For whether the war has directly affected our family or not, the thought of its existence is enough to make Christian enthusiasm wane a little. This will be Christmas when we can and must get away from thoughtless amusement, from that kind of jollity which is concerned only with personal pleasures. It will be more like that first Holiday nearly 20 centuries ago, when a small group of a great race rejoiced that the Messiah had come to lead them out of their troubles. We at this season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MERRY CHRISTMAS | 12/22/1917 | See Source »

...reviewing. Concentration on scholastic work during vacation is difficult at best, but this spring it is an opportunity which men who expect to be officers cannot afford to neglect. Dismissal from both the University and the Reserve Corps is too high a price to pay for eight days of thoughtless indifference to work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO VACATION DUTIES | 4/14/1917 | See Source »

...service to join, the past few weeks have been a period of trying uncertainty. In a time like the present it is hard to see olive-drab and navy blue on all sides and be contented with civilian clothes. Harvard men have been advised frequently against hasty and thoughtless enlistment, but the time for definite action by every member of the University is rapidly approaching...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO VACATION DUTIES | 4/14/1917 | See Source »

...surprise the world. There was no referendum. To be sure, there was the universal service system in France. But that system (which the people as a whole voted for several years ago) in compelling responsibility, made the great mass of men think and fight with a finer spirit than thoughtless men can ever know. It was not referendum that made them think; it was the realization of their individual responsibility in defending their country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How Long to Think? | 2/20/1917 | See Source »

...gentlemen who distribute neckties, etc., to the clamoring mockers in Mt. Auburn street, those of us whose studies are interrupted by the pandemonium cannot help feeling that such philanthropy is misplaced, and that the above-mentioned ties would have looked better in the Phillips Brooks House clothing collection. These thoughtless fairy god-fathers are not only adding to the predatory insolence of their parasites, but are seriously interfering with their 'neighbors' chances of two C's and a D at the finals. T. NELSON '18. W. BURRY...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Indiscriminate Charity Objectionable. | 6/5/1916 | See Source »

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