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Today's vote ought to be a sober, thoughtful expression of Harvard's sentiment, and one that will ring true to the highest ideals of national patriotism...
...loss of three of our graduates that the blow comes most heavily upon us. None of them went lightly away: they were not looking for romance or for experience: they had no illusions about war. With sober thoughtfulness they faced the fact of a ruthless tyrant in Europe who threatened death to great living principles, and they decided that their duty lay with the Battery in France. We are staggered to think that they are dead...
...manuscripts tell us that in the Middle Ages students, when they had finished their studies, would congregate in open places to play games and indulge in healthful recreation. The roughness of the sports and the evident enjoyment of the participants were noted with surprise by the staid and sober chroniclers of the time, and these old scholars were inclined to shake their heads at such fruitless effort. As the games seemed to give the young men a certain mental alertness, the scribes suggested in their writings that perhaps the sports should not be forbidden...
...poor, and the action weak, this fear is quickly dispelled by the entrance of Miss Fisher as Annabelle Leigh, who has a husband somewhere, and Mr. Nicander as George Wimblton, who recognizes the day after New Year's as the only time when he is likely to be sober. Once they have made their appearance the dialogue is transformed into a new and ultimate thing fairly overflowing with life. Characterization and personality appear as if by magic, and the whole action is enlivened and lightened. To them, and especially to Miss Fisher, is due the salvation of the first...
...fulfill his military duty towards her immediately. Four or five hundred have already signed up for the Plattsburg Camps. Others cannot attend the camps and yet have had no military training. These are the men who should pause and regard the facts of our relations with Mexico in a sober light. Rushing to enlist in a burst of patriotic enthusiasm will do no good until the government at Washington has made the final decision and the need for untrained as well as for trained men is expressed...