Word: lad
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have adopted a French lad who was sadly in need of aid. I will tell you about...
...told me of the lad. He lived in one of the villages of Northern France. This village was shelled by the Germans, and his mother was killed. His father had already died for France. This boy of ten years lived in this village for four or five days--God knows how he lived. He was found by a colonel of a regiment of Zouaves. The colonel took the lad and kept him with the regiment. He was what we should call a mascot for them. The lad lived with them for three months in the trenches. At the time...
...educated at the cost of funds which we repaid to China from the surplus of the Boxer indemnity over the damages chargeable to it. Also high in leadership of private enterprises are still other young China-men taught here in the same manner. If the ex-Emperor is a lad of the right sort, history may be made by him and the manner of his education. --New York Times...
...there should be more to this invitation than merely seeing to it that the sailors have seats. They should be made welcome by all Harvard men with a lusty Harvard cheer, and receive the right hand of fellowship. These same lads whom you will see attending your football game will probably be among the first to give their lives for their country, should the cause ever come. They are spending four arduous years of their life in preparing for the event, while the undergraduate is enjoying four years of the best the land can give him. Is it not well...
...love to tell of Harvard, the real Harvard, as I found her; the generous Harvard, the liberal Harvard, the sympathetic Harvard, the democratic Harvard, the Harvard of opportunities for the poorest lad in all the land. This is the real Harvard as I came to know her and to love her. The Harvard, the least affected with the false spirit of wealthy aristocracy and snobbery, and the most democratic of our great universities in America; the Harvard, where any poor boy without wealth or social distinction can go, trusting only in the ambition of an honest heart and noble purpose...