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...business in hand, in order that we may resume the business in hand with increased effort. No vast military good is accomplished by refusing to dance, to heal music and see plays, or to keep up our friendships. In a time of increased effort, indeed, a more than normal amount of amusement is needed, as has been found in warring nations, after the first hysteria of war nervousness has worn off. It might be urged that pleasure found by intense enjoyment is artificial. But all pleasure is artificial, provided we assume a pessimistic...
...Harvard Reserve Officers' Training Corps, and preference will be given to such of those men as have had business training. By business training is meant either a regular course in a business school of collegiate or of graduate rank, or business experience sufficient to assure familiarity with normal requirements for the keeping of records and the receipt and issue of supplies. The course is intended for prospective officers of the line who will serve with troops: it is not intended for candidates for Quartermaster Corps work in either supply service of the interior or supply service of the line...
...abhorred since forgotten time, mingles with the song of the alarm clock in a metallic discord of summons. Seven hundred men have learned that the morning and the evening are the day; and the morning has grown, like the tale of a submarine's exploits, to twice the normal size, while the evening is evanescent. Seven hundred men have acquired the habit of seeing how the great city looks before the subways to Boston are running, and the Cambridge police force, taking up the burden the stars have left off, resumes his diurnal beat. Seven hundred men have seen with...
...cannot allow the general disorder attendant upon our entrance into the war to disrupt our lives more than is essential to our country's safety. The normal course of events demands that we remain here until June. There is no national benefit to be derived from a self imposed vacation coming at this time. The Administrative Board wisely and generously allowed the regular spring vacation. To seek more is to be unappreciative...
...with offices in the Petersham town hall as a base, he will carry out by automobiles a canvass of all the farmers in the vicinity of the town and will organize a scheme which will greatly increase the acreage under cultivation throughout the whole neighborhood. As a result the normal crop production will be at least doubled and it is hoped trebled. Seed, fertilizer and labor will, as far as possible, be furnished to all those who are unable to themselves furnish them. The money for carrying out these loans will be raised in the towns...