Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...explanation of the election of these men and of these literary degeneracy of the Advocate lies in the fact that the Advocate has become a social affair, interested in verse and prose merely as a side issue. W. F. DAVIDSON. R. H. SNOW. T. M. HODGENS, JR. S. B. GOODSTONE...
President and Mrs. Lowell cordially invite all students of the University who do not go away for the recess to their house, 17 Quincy street, on Christmas Eve, Monday, December 24, between 8 and 10 o'clock in the evening. This reception, which is an annual affair, was attended last year by about 150 men. President Lowell's reading from the Bible of the story of the Nativity of Christ was followed by several other readings, among them one by Professor Copeland. Later in the evening those present joined in singing carols...
...been definitely decided to hold a Junior Dance some time after the mid-year examination period. The affair will be less elaborate than in former years, and strictly in accordance with the spirit of "informality" so prevalent in Cambridge...
...must not, therefore, hasten to condemn negro troops. They have shown their mettle in many a skirmish, and the Houston affair is merely an incident which discredit individuals, not a race. The individuals have suffered, the race should...
...Brownsville and resulted in the dismissal of an entire battalion from the service. All of which would seem to lead to the conclusion that our negro soldiers are a disgrace to the service. Nothing is farther from the truth. The work of the colored troops in the last, Mexican affair was nothing short of marvelous; they bore the brunt of the fighting and acquitted themselves gloriously. The negro cavalry is equal to the best we have in the Army, and the War College cavalrymen stationed at Plattsburg during the summer of 1916 were a source of admiration to every student...