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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...built up the commercial machine. Numerous attempts were made before 1914 to establish aerial postal routes, or freight service between places with poor railroad connection. A project has lately appeared to start such a system between London and Paris. Although crossing the Channel was an unusual feat eight years ago, the recent progress in aviation has made that same trip an every-day occurrence. We have read that the governor of Rhode Island traveled by this method when he visited France not long ago. What was seldom done in times of peace has been made a daily necessity...
...Cambridge Y. M. C. A. tank, Central Square, this afternoon at 4 o'clock. All 1921 candidates will report at that time to Coach Waters of the Y. M. C. A., who will have charge of the team instruction. Coach Waters was University and Freshman swimming coach two years ago, and for part of the time last year. It is hoped later to secure, in addition, the services of Coach Dome of the Boston Y. M. C. A., instructor of last year's teams...
...many an American college the undergraduate seems to have experienced a change of heart upon several matters. He has even discovered, much more generally than he had four years ago, a feeling of interest in questions of broad public moment. In subjects touching his personal future he has found certain issues of more vital concern than the mastery of the latest step in the fox-trot. It is easy to trace the sequence of cause and effect which has been at work here: The boys in our colleges have seen hundreds of their fellows go forth to an active share...
...bold stroke ten days ago, President Wilson swept aside the delicate fabric of private ownership and competition under Government supervision which has controlled the railroads of the country for the past generation. The plan which he set forth in his proclamation was received with approval by the bankers of the country, and was willingly acceded to by the roads as the best thing to be done in the present unprecedented circumstances...
...fall to one side or the other according to the relative strength or weakness of the expert scientific knowledge of the two great groups of combatants. A few examples taken at random from this field may serve the present purpose. The British Minister of Munitions stat- ed not long ago that the war would be won by ammonium nitrate. What he meant to emphasize was the fact that an adequate supply of explosives was essential to victory and that this supply depended, under the conditions of today, on getting ammonium nitrate in sufficient quantities. This, of course, is a chemical...