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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...because, like the Nile, it suffers a yearly spring overflow, where, from his brazen seat, John Harvard frowns down at these roystering children of a frivolous generation, the banquet boards of 1917's hospitality will rest. And in Memorial Hall the ingrained odor of cabbage and beef from ten thousand dinners will be temporarily smothered under the fragrance of rose-water and culled flowers...
...have said something. Now let Rumor wag her thousand tongues...
...which we live arouse some fire from an uninspired generation? Homer, as the legend goes, wrote the two great epics about the little feuds of a handful of half-barbaric and rather unhygienic Hellene chieftains. Their war was no more than a tribal war, yet the world for three thousand years has spoken, when it would speak of grand things, of Ilium...
...Five thousand boys will take part in the third annual rally and demonstration of the Greater Boston Council of the Boy Scouts of America, to be held in the Stadium this afternoon. Beginning at 2 o'clock with a march in review, for which the Regiment Band will furnish music, the scouts will present a varied and extensive program lasting until "retreat" is sounded. Demonstrations as well as competitions, are included in the festivities...
...which the Council recruits its members includes not only Boston and the immediate suburbs, but also all the townships lying within a radius of 25 miles. The rally today is the major event of the year for the scouts, and keen competitions in all the classes is expected. Thirty thousand people will probably witness the demonstrations. All scout activities will be represented in the events...