Word: views
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...points of serried bayonets and the mounted officers. We chanced to stand on the Common where the uniformed men could be seen only when they emerged from the multitude along Boylston street as the column swung into Park square. Presently a flag came floating along in full view above the throng. It seemed a living presence--a radiant embodiment visualizing the impelling cause of the unseen array. Men and boys bared their heads. "Why don't women find some way to salute that flag?" a feminine voice was heard to ask, somewhere amid the shoulders round about...
...marchers wheeled into view in Park square, "that flag" seemed to float on the billowed sea of their manhood--a trustfully hovering presence above those stalwart men. It was a striking spectacle as the column pushed its way out Columbus avenue. Every youth in that sturdy array had given up home comforts, school and business advantages, personal delights with friends and loved ones--had turned from all these to the rigors of camp and training stations--had subordinated himself to enders that must be obeyed without demur--had set himself to face terrifle perils overseas and lay down his life...
...college education is only too often misunderstood by the undergraduate to mean the bare knowledge of the contents of the books that are read and the assimilation of the facts that are presented in the class room. Others, now in the minority, take the opposite view that the things to be sought at college lie totally without the class room...
...special course in practice fire and record work has been arranged with a view to affording the greatest variety of practice possible in the short time allowed. Five shots each will be fired from 200, 300 and 500 yards in kneeling, sitting and prone positions, respectively, during the preliminary practice...
...country during the past four years. As editor of the Paris Matin, one of the best-known European newspapers, M. Lauzanne has become one of the leading figures of French politics. He is in this country on a mission to show the people of the United States the view that her ally has taken in this war. In addition to being a prominent editor, the speaker is an officer of the Legion of Honor. Tonight's lecture will be open to the public...