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Cambridge patrolman Thomas F. Burke, whom Harvard students knew as the voice from the traffic booth at the Coop corner, retired this week...
Burke found four generations of Harvard undergraduates "good lads, on the whole, but not very careful about lights." He never had a serious argument with one, he says, and one many occasions, a student or two would stop by the booth for a long chat...
Saturday afternoons in the Fall were the gayest times of all for students and Burke alike. Sometimes two or three men would cram into the booth with him and get the "best view in the Square" as the Band marched by, and often Burke would follow the Band to the Stadium to watch the games...
...Ballington Booth, imperious second son of the imperious Booths, broke with father William and Bramwell and founded the Volunteers of America, which is much smaller than the army, is devoted to philanthropy and is not a church...
Such qualities, unflaggingly demonstrated by the Salvation Army through its 71-year history, had won it a measure of public support and respect, particularly in the U.S., that would have astonished the army's embattled first generation. But the workers in General Booth's host, like other dedicated servants of the poor, could make an explanation. The world could not continue to persecute, or even be indifferent, to men & women who live by the most difficult of Christ's beatitudes: "Blessed are the meek . . . blessed are the merciful...