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These things are highly pleasant, but they do not compose Christmas. They are no more Christmas than the small boy's ideal of a time when he receives the consummation of all his dreams, and eats more than a small boy should ever...
...William E. Smith, assistant Boy Scout commissioner of Cambridge, will be at Phillips Brooks House daily except Saturday during the winter months. He will have desk room in connection with the Social Service Department and will be very glad to talk with anyone interested in Boy Scout work...
...West are sending their children for instruction. I shall tell the people of the West, when I go back, that the students' faith in God is torn to shreds here in your colleges. Such institutions, I say, should be blotted out. If I wanted to make sure of a boy becoming an infidel. I should send him to one of these colleges." This sweeping indictment includes all the colleges of New England, Harvard, Yale, Brown, Dartmouth, Amherst, Williams, Tufts, Bowdoin and the others. Even Smith, Mt. Holyoke, Wellesley and the other girls' colleges are not specifically exempted from the charge...
...Christmas night, Richard started out on his motor ambulance in the neighborhood of the battlefield. And, as he neared the scene, a shell struck him as he sat on his chauffeur's seat. The ambulance was wrecked. No one heeded. But next day another ambulance driver found the American boy's body buried under the ruins of the vehicle, and the French soldiers paid it such military honors as they could...
...Neuilly, in which she said: "As I write, the clock strikes two, perhaps the very hour when life forsook our child. I am often awake in these early hours and my heart goes to you all in France." Then she gave her own service, and sent her other boy to take Richard's place...