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...first wounded American dough-boy to come into our hands set the entire Unit in ecstasies of delight--every Harvard man swelled with pride--not because the poor fellow's wounds amounted to anything in themselves, but because they were a positive, visible proof to our British companions that America was in the war. Every member of our Unit has made lasting fiendships with the English. Many of us were detached to other hospitals which were understaffed when the big push was on, and so I am sure that by rubbing shoulders with the British officers and Tommies throughout...
...latter we have seen appear with their beautifully shined puttees wrong end to. Others have walked the streets with eight inches of shoe-string dragging behind. Still others have come to parade with their R. O. T. C. insignia at a slant of forty-five degrees. They have taken delight in the clandestine publication of orders. They have demanded attendance at lectures announced three hours before their occurrence. They have even advocated battalion parade in columns of squads...
These words gave free traders a thrill of delight. But the party of privileged trade-preventers, masquerading as "protectionists," thought that the President was uttering a platitude, and that nothing would come of it. But the President is not of that class; on January 8, addressing Congress, he proposed "the removal, so far as possible, of all economic barriers...
...which we should like to forget through the result of today's game. The war has made us fairly liberal in athletics, and we now maintain publicly that we want to see the best team win. Yet we have not become so militarily impartial that we take any particular delight in having Yale win. We want the Freshmen to administer to our friends a good drubbing and we think they can do it. But they can accomplish this only through the hardest kind of playing every minute of the game. There must not be an instant when a Crimson player...
...reflect on the delight of that state where a man of tender and delicate conscience was spared the debasing and unspiritual task of work. We would all turn Shakers then, crying down the militarism of pick and shovel...