Word: ago
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...many years ago newspapers, magazines and public opinion delighted in referring to Harvard as "The Rich Man's College," dubbing it in derision an exclusive finishing school for the scions of plutocratic families. A man of ordinary circumstances, they said, had as much chance of achieving distinction at Cambridge as the rich man has of making his way into heaven...
...motley collection known as Kitchener's mob, or "K(1)". In April, 1914, he was sent to France, where his distinguished conduct soon raised him to the rank of captain. His regiment suffered heavily in the famous "Battle of the Slag Heaps" in the Loos offensive of a year ago. For some mysterious reason, as he characteristically puts it, he was recommended for the Military Cross, and after being subsequently transferred to a machine gun company, he was given a furlough to enable him to come to America. Captain Beith sees the humorous as well as the serious side...
...France. It is a recognition that when the era of treaty revision begins after the war foreign countries will look toward this work as an authoritative source of information on American treaty law. It will take rank in foreign international law circles with a celebrated one written some years ago by a Rumanian on the Danube River Commission. The Harvard Law Review says of Mr. Bate's thesis: "Little that has been written regarding the borderland between international and constitutional law can compare with this pamphlet in clearness or in interest." New York...
Edwin Ginn '18 who was taken sick with infantile paralysis some weeks ago, has been removed from Stillman Infirmary to his home in Winchester, where he is progressing as well as could be expected. He has not yet gained much control of his leg muscles and is as yet unable to walk, but the doctors think that there is no doubt that his recovery will be complete, although somewhat slow...
...University, especially drawn up for the Register with a complete index to the buildings, has been added. Particular attention has been given to the listing of all the clubs with accurate indication of their location on the map. A calendar such as that incorporated in the book years ago but discontinued in recent issues, has been added again in an improved form...