Word: come
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...stand, remove our hats, and begin valiantly with the heroic query of "Oh say, can you see?" Finding that no one can see we relapse into a humming monotone, cheerful, although unintelligible. It is only at "the rockets' red glare, the bombs' bursting in air," that our patriotic choruses come out with full assurance again. That bit or warlike description has fixed in our memory where other things have faded. This speaks somewhat for the power of our associations with the 4th of July...
...more than fifty years ago that Philip Nolan shouted: "Damn the United States! I wish I may never hear of the United States again!" Today, as in the days of the Civil War, this sort of blasphemy is scarce, yet a new feeling has come into vogue, quite as dangerous as that of the "man without a country," and far more widespread...
Enlistments are continuing to come in rapidly from alumni, business men of Boston, and students of other colleges. To date 587 have enrolled in the Corps at the Recorder's office since the Easter recess; of this number 36 have been finally rejected because of physical disqualification or other reasons. Of the remainder 439 have so far been enlisted, making the total number of the Corps at present, not counting the men called to Plattsburg, over 900. President Hadley of Yale was in conference with President Lowell yesterday, and it is believed that several hundred men of that institution will...
...victory, a visit to the metropolis, a check from home, the end of the examinations, a large party, a small party, may serve as the whywithal of a "spree." The aftermath consists largely in telling how much he drank, remembering with a triplicated record the sum of beverages which come his way. If a college man had no one to drink with, if he had no one to tell about it afterwards, he would be as abstinent as a sailor...
Again, the college man drinks for friendship. His been hours represent those times when he may come the closest amity to his fellows. Poetry? Surely. But a fourth the things we do, and a half that are worth doing, are done for impractical reasons...