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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...account of absence for military service in France for the duration of the war, Robert Bacon '80 has resigned as a member of the University Corporation. John F. Moors has been elected to succeed him. Mr. Moors is a graduate of the Class of 1883. He received an A. M. degree in 1884 and an Honorary LL.D. by the University in 1915. He is well known in Boston on account of his devotion to public service for a long period of time and in many capacities. He is president of the Associated Charities, director of the Workingmen's Loan Association...
...rate the long and short of the matter is that baked beans must be preserved even if the pork law has to be changed for their benefit. For just as Milwaukee is noted for its beer, and Detroit for its Ford, so, too, Boston is known on account of the bean. Any blow at its prestige is a slap at Boston. Indeed, Daniel was cast into the lions' den for not bowing before Darius' idol; if the commissioners had erred they might have suffered similarly and as a penalty for snubbing the sacred bean they would doubtless have been cast...
Gorgas reports the plumbing often defective, no base hospitals completed except at Funston, and winter overcoats issued to only a small number of men. The report reads like an account of the Spanish-American War camps, where so many thousands were killed by disease. A repetition of those days seems impossible, but we must see to it that our camps are clean, that men are not sent in herds of six thousand to places where no one is ready for them, as recently occurred at New Rochelle. The nation is willing to give its manhood up to face bullets...
...Review has announced the election of six new men to its board because of the small number of editors in the Law School on account of the war. The immediate occasion for the addition to the list of editors was the fact that two members of the staff already elected earlier in the year have left the Law School to go into services. They are George Franklin Ludington 2L, of Baltimore, Md., and Sigurd Neland 2L, of Minneapolis, Minn...
...latest method to raise money for war purposes interests those who have no bank account and those who have plenty of ready money. The stamp system depends on the collection of small savings from day to day. Instead of a bond for a comparatively large amount, maturing several years hence, the Government has printed war savings stamps, which can be redeemed with interest at ten day's notice. Sixteen thrift stamps may be obtained singly, which enable one to purchase a war savings stamp, valued at $4.12. These may be bought at any postoffice. By still collecting, until...