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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...more or less at a standstill, and this being the case we are more and more attracted to the bright lights of Boston, where we can rest up after a day of recitations by visiting movies, theatres and even dances. Mr. Storrow's new law has now permanently interned us in Cambridge. After ten we must make the Waldorf take the place of the Copley, and our imaginations must make up for other gaieties...
Things do look bad, but a little privation only reminds us that we are at war,--a fact we are often wont to forget. Moreover, the mid-years are coming nearer and nearer, and the new law gives us a gentle hint to do a little work; Mr. Storrow's restriction may even save us from the annual post-examination call on Mr. Cram. To make Boston deader than it is seems an unnecessary blow, especially with New York revelling practically as of yore. Still, coal must be saved and until warm weather comes our motto must be: Off with...
...commerce and it may lose it in the realm of education too. Indeed, I believe that it will inevitably lose it if it dissinates its energies and scatters its forces. Its greatest asset is its record of achievement and its tradition of high purpose and exalted aim. Let us continue to aim high. If we do so and are properly supported we can build up in this community one of the very greatest, if not the greatest centres to be found anywhere in the world of science, pure and applied, for the two must go together--a centre of scientific...
...need of reality, independence and old-fashioned devotion was emphasized by Mr. Eddy in his remarks. "We must have reality of faith, conviction that the hand of God has marked out a path for us to follow," he said. "We cannot tell what may happen. It is even conceivable that we may lose this war, and that is a thing for you to ponder well. Yet even so, great things have come from periods of loss, of chaos and of defeat...
...should have learned from the experience of other nations; indeed, we did have a value notion of the importance of intelligent supervision of labor when we entered the struggle. But the actual necessities of the case were not comprehended until our own errors and mistakes enforced them on us...