Word: act
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Seldom could one find among the members of one college faculty four men more admirably fitted to act as specialists in such an undertaking than Professors Haskins, Coolidge, Dixon and Lord. Their combined knowledge embraces four of the most important questions that will have to be decided at the coming conference: Alsace-Lorraine, Russia, Poland the Balkans and the Far East...
...recently made notable gains. In 1917 the Sanitary Corps of the United States army was established as a branch of the Medical Department co-ordinate with the Medical Corps; and recently, by Congressional action, a sanitary reserve of the United States Public Health Service has been created. This act, known as Senate Joint Resolution 63, was approved by the President October 27, 1918. Under the new law sanitarians, sanitary engineers, chemists, bacteriologists, public health officials, may be commissioned and given equal rank and grade with medical men in the service. This will make it possible to solidify the sanitary officers...
...laid out for the band and it will be followed exactly. The men will be held up to a very rigid discipline; they are excused from all kitchen or fatigue duties, but will loose their passes at the slightest evidence of insubordination. During the afternoon drills the bandmen will act as orderlies, stretcher bearers and will perform similar duties, when not with the band itself...
...first regular private performance of the 47 Workshop will be given at Agassiz House; Radcliffe, tonight at 8 o'clock. The second regular performance is to be next Monday. The two plays are "The Middle Window" and "Rise Up, Jennie Smith,", by Eugene Pillot, in one act. These performances are open only to regular members of the Workshop audience, who are expected to write a criticism...
Arrangements will soon be made for training properly qualified men for Sanitary Engineering in order to fit them for the Sanitary Corps of the United States Army. Several hundred men, both commissioned and non-commissioned, are needed to act as Sanitary Engineers at the various United States cantonements in France and at home. The School of Public Health at the University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is one of the places where training will be given...