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...have five cent fares again? Are we no longer to stand in line for eight-cent tickets; but once more be able casually to tass our nickels or anything else we happen to have into the collection box? Are we going to be able to go anywhere without being conscious of a brass band in our trouser pockets? If this be so, we are indeed returning to ante-bellum days...
There are few good ideas which occur everywhere simultaneously. Here is one which loses none of its value for Harvard and other colleges because they did not happen to think of it first. We do not undertake to suggest the precise method of making it applicable to the Harvard men in service; but the necessary machinery, utilizing perhaps the home addresses of men in service, perhaps the agency of the American University Union in Europe, perhaps both, does not seem to lie beyond the inventive power of an individual or group of men to whom the idea of giving...
...opportunity of congratulating the author of that brief paragraph--who appears to have been too yellow to sign his own name to it--on the success of his little hoax. But it might be well to remind him, at the same time, that unpleasant things have been known to happen to people that acquire the habit of using other persons' signatures without their consent...
...need of reality, independence and old-fashioned devotion was emphasized by Mr. Eddy in his remarks. "We must have reality of faith, conviction that the hand of God has marked out a path for us to follow," he said. "We cannot tell what may happen. It is even conceivable that we may lose this war, and that is a thing for you to ponder well. Yet even so, great things have come from periods of loss, of chaos and of defeat...
...sort of dream to wonder what would happen if great men of former times came back to look on the present. We have been told what Abraham Lincoln would have thought of the war; we have heard what opinion Louis XIV would have held of the initiative and referendum; it has even been suggested how Isaiah would have received Billy Sunday. Strangely, however, no one has ever informed us of Phillips Brooks' words, should he enter Phillips Brooks House. For the Bishop was an inveterate smoker. He purchased a brand of long, black cigars, which were not labeled Colorado Claro...