Word: friends
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...those men who are not called to go with the first chosen army, there must come a great measure of desolation at knowing how brief will be the service of these young men. There will not be one person in this wide nation who will not have a close friend leave at the first call. They who remain may trust, with that vague and lasting trust which is given to mortals, that those who are the crosest to them will some way be spared in the blind lot of battle. But such trust is sad and futile when we realize...
...story is of Mildred Gleason, an American girl, whose whole being revolts against the monotony of dreary, uneventful missionary existence in Japan. She has passed into her late twenties--that fearsome betwixt and between age--with no friend of her own age near, for her girlhood lover disappeared twelve years before--in the last "Tiger Year." Asano, her old manservant, tells Mildred-san that the smoke-cloud Tiger which glowers over Fuji, caused his going, just as this year it will bring her "wild strange things." Thus when she meets a stranger, Hale, and falls in love, Asano sees...
...heroic sacrifices demanded by the great game of war is vividly brought home. Ronald Hoskier of the Junior class is the first Harvard undergraduate to make the final and glorious sacrifice for the cause of humanity and democracy. The many acquaintances of Hoskier sincerely mourn the loss of a friend whose exceptional qualities were recognized and admired by all who came in contact with him. He met his death bravely in action, and has brought highest honor to his family and college. May his brothers in arms see in his sacrifice the best example of service to country and faith...
...study of the loafer alone is worth a man's while. I have had themes late by reason of a janitor's carelessness in mislaying them when he dusted; because a sister borrowed them to show to a friend; because the hour the student expected to spend in preparation had been used up in getting a long-distance call over the telephone. What conviction has the ordinary excuse now for me? And what strange glimpses I have had of lives! The boy who lay for eighteen hours under the dead body of his mother in Kishineff, until the mob drew...
...Museum has received the following permanent and temporary loans: From a friend of the Museum, two bronzes by Paul Manship, "Centaur and Nymph" and "Dancer and Gazelies"; also an oil painting by James McNeill Whistler, "Symphony in blue and silver--Trouville." From J. Pierpont Morgan '89, 26 original drawings by Rembrandt, now on view in the Print Room. From Messrs. Duveen Bros., of New York City, a "Madonna and Child," by Matteo da Siena, and a "Madonna Adoring the Child," by Piero di Cosimo, on exhibition in the gallery. From Mortimer L. Schiff, the Cogswell collection of original drawings...