Word: coasted
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...stiffness and restraint in the Harvard manner invariably makes an unfavorable impression on a man accustomed to the breeziness of the free-and-easy West, but it can hardly be taken to mean that there is less of real democracy at Cambridge than in the college towns on the Coast. Harvard democracy is accustomed to express itself in a less demonstrative fashion, that is all, and although it lies deeper beneath the surface, its presence cannot be denied...
...being made by the Committee of Public Safety of Massachusetts to enlist more men for this work, and the outlying towns are being canvassed for recruits. At Gloucester about 50 volunteers have enlisted and at Cohasset over 35 men, mostly from the working class, have volunteered for the coast patrol...
...Navy Department except during the periods of strained foreign relations or actual war. Each unit will be assigned to a boat for patrol duty in the First Naval District during the summer maneuvers, and in case of war will be immediately ordered to report for duty in defending the coast from submarines...
Such a system will be the hydraulic cement to bind together all the magnificent building blocks -- an increased army, an increased navy, strengthened coast fortifications, coast railroads and waterways, the co-ordination of our industrial resources and energies -- into an enduring structure of peace, security and immunity from attack or insult. REAR ADMIRAL ROBERT E. PEARY...
...United States Military Training Camps Association has announced the time and location for the camps to be held in the Eastern and Central Departments in the summer of 1917. The Eastern Department, comprising the Atlantic coast states and those west of the lower Mississippi and the Ohio will have its senior encampment at Plattsburg, N. Y. Four campst will be held as follows: June 2 to July 1; July 7 to August 5; August 11 to September 9, and September 15 to October 14. Junior camps in this department for boys between 15 and 18 years of age will...