Word: watch
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This evening, at eight bells of the second dog watch, when the sleep of oblivion is beginning to creep over the rural districts and, by tradition, the Freshman Dormitories, and when the subway-to-Park is just beginning to awake, the sparse but never sad remnants of 1917 will gather from Hollis, from Holworthy, and the furthest confines of West Newton for that annual festival wherein Seniors have attempted since immemorial years to forget, if such a thing were possible, that they are wise...
...theory that only by frightening the people with dark fears will the people do as they should. That rule is supposed to work well in the nursery, to guide children in the path of duty. But no prophecies that "the famine'll get you if you don't watch out" may be used to instil fortitude and determination into an intelligent nation. If we as a people need such methods of comprehending the necessary, then we have small reason to exist as a strong people, but rather as a pygmy-souled race of children. However, we need no such methods...
Captain Philip Jensen, of the famous Canadian Black Watch Regiment, will speak on his experiences in the trenches and the Y. M. C. A. Hut Work in the British Army at the regular meeting of the Christian Association in Phillips Brooks House tomorrow night. The meeting will be held for, this time only, at 7.30 o'clock in the evening instead of 9.45 o'clock in the morning...
Captain Philip Jensen, of the famous Canadian Black Watch Regiment, will speak at the regular weekly meeting of the Christian Association to be held in the parlor of Phillips Brooks House, Sunday night. For this week only, the time of the meeting has been changed from 9.45 o'clock in the morning to 7.30 o'clock in the evening...
...Some of My Experiences in the Trenches, and the Y. M. C. A. Hut Work in the British Army," will be the subject of Captain Jensen's talk. Of the 1,500 men originally in the Black Watch Regiment, in which Captain Jensen holds a commission, only three are now living. Captain Jensen himself has been wounded 11 times, and seriously affected by poisonous gases. He has, in fact come to this country in order to receive special treatment to rid himself of lung trouble that has been caused by these gases...