Word: us
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...evening at midnight, and be sure of finding four members of the aristocracy, full of good breeding and bon mots, a sleepy butler, a silver cigarette box, a whiskey and potass, and a beautiful woman hidden in the next room! If any cast could really take us back to those days, Mr. Faversham has chosen it. Miss Elliot is stupendously stunning, and almost convincing as Lady Algy. We suspect that, being a sport herself, she left Lord A. mainly because he was so refined when drunk, but during his sober moments he was, as played by Mr. Faversham, decidedly...
Finals are not unlike medicine. Nobody likes them, but in the taking they do each of us some much-needed good. To the student they normally mean merely more time spent in digging up knowledge about a given subject. To the faculty man, thinking up a new set of questions presents something of difficulty, and correcting blue books is a thankless task at best...
...with a feeling of great satisfaction with those of us who have ever contended that the sport of football was one which bred real men, that we find in this time of emergency of the country our gridiron heroes, practically en masse, have gone to the colors. Last year's Yale and Harvard teams which played at the Yale Bowl before some 80,000 spectators, are now divided in the service as follows...
...have heard probably of Harvard's loss, the stage's--future stage, at least--loss, and my loss--in that bully good fellow and perfect friend, Ham Craig. His section, Number 2, was working right beside us; their 'postes' were adjacent to ours--and he died from wounds received in action--it all occurred between 10 in the evening and 2 the next-morning. And all the time I was driving a car and never thinking of him going. I saw his grave--all flower-covered. It was in the heart of a cemetery of French soldiers--lines of them...
...decorated with the Croix de Guerre. As a result today has been a fete day, with feasting, songs, wines, and speeches. Now we recuperate. There is talk of work again, and lots of it, in about ten days. There are American soldiers within 20 kilometres;--a young lieutenant visited us yesterday and dined with us today. It seems hard to realize that all about us here are Americans, preparing to go down and face the thunder and flame that we have heard all around and over us...