Word: us
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...military and administrative work have urged that, wherever possible, the education of young men be completed before they are lost in the mold of a great military organization. But the very fact that the nation is willing to dispense with our services for a greater future benefit, places us under the obligation to assume at least a tone of our coming responsibilities, in our present endeavors. Each and every one of us is now a fixed asset to the nation--and the nation must realize upon us in a year, or two, or three perhaps--and the return must...
...future; and the sum of time gives small account to individual components of years. A century is a short time in the records of the world, but a century will see the death of the oldest man who fought the wars. This year, and the strife which to us swallows up the year, will be but, a page of history, for the statistician and the biographer to prod into with an exact and impersonal finger...
Then comes the stamp tax on bank checks. This is tyranny indeed, and we can well understand what Patrick Henry was so huffy about back in colonial days. For this gruelling measure intends to charge us for every check we write. How many times have we sought to impress our creditors around Harvard Square with what affluence we were possessed! We thought nothing of presenting a check for an account of thirty-nine cents ten months overdue. Our signatures did look well on those pieces of evidence. But this mus all a thing of the good old past...
...admission is in the neighborhood of twenty-five cents are not exempt, and the undergraduate consumer of their amusement must bear the brunt. Reserved seats at theatres are on a special balck-list, and we know too well now the predilections of a certain friend in Boston who provides us with front row seats with an air of a charitable man. The galleries will probably come into their Elizabethan popularity again, and we shall learn to despise that vulgar place, the pit. Sleeping car reservations need hardly be mentioned. They follow along with all the other luxuries...
...today at 3.30 o'clock dressed to row. Any candidate who is unable to report at that time should reach Newell by 4. It is expected that yesterday's showing will be materially increased by new men today, so that the Freshman crew, at least, may continue its season us usual...