Word: us
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...bursting of a volcano. Two hundred yards off, above the trees, a column of huge rocks, lumps of earth, tree-trunks and probably numerous human limbs, rose slowly and majestically. The upper fragments, as they rose, seemed to advance menacingly in our direction, as if they must surely hit us when they returned to earth. They seemed suspended in the air for an indefinite space of time, as if there was no hurry at all about their failing back. They seemed to cross and criss-cross in all directions, now obscuring half the sky. Gradually the mass assumed the shape...
...broad intellectual outlook that only life abroad can give, but he will acquire a knowledge which may some day culminate in the founding of a successful domestic industry. He will be able to given the nation an international point of view, the lack of which has recently given us so much difficulty, he will be able to make his mind go across the seas and consider the policies of those whom he has actually seen and whom he knows, and he will give cause for the further growth of Harvard's democratic ideals among the already rapidly growing family abroad...
...papers have been telling us lately of the arrival of the guardsmen and of their rejoicing (comparable to that of the Ten Thousand on catching sight of the sea) as they saw once more the frost-covered Berkshire, etc., etc. They have overlooked to tell us, however, that most of these guardmen have returned too late for registration and consequently will be barred from voting How many votes will either candidate lose on this account? For what candidate would the guardmen, as a whole, be likely to vote after their stay at the border? Perhaps it is to the advantage...
...ever in greater danger than the ambulance men, it is impossible to speak of the latter except in superlatives. The long list of citations to the order of the day at the back of the book, and the simple official statements of the acts that won them, give us the right to place these men among the heroes...
...University, will lecture on science and civilization in the time of da Vinci, Professor Mather, of Princeton, is to speak on modern painting, Professor Adams, of Yale, on the economics of war, and Dean Gay on the industrial revolution. Every one of the these subjects should appeal to us and the lecturers are all of the highest repute. The building is easily accessible. The time will not conflict with any work. Nothing but disinclination or ignorance can keep a man from the enjoyment of so unique an opportunity...