Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...been decided to allow students to enter Government 4 at the beginning of the second half-year and count it as a half-course. Government 4 has always been a full course given by Professor G. G. Wilson, about international law. Since the last half of this course deals with the international law of war, it was thought that many would like to take such a course at this time, and the provision has been made to enable new men to take it this half-year under the name of Government 4b. This particular course takes up the principles...
...other hand, has established an effective blockade. She has not filled the North Sea with a host of commerce raiders (which is what the submarines are) but has drawn a cordon around Germany's ports. And haying established a real blockade England can, under international law, refuse to allow neutrals to trade with Germany. England has at times overstepped her rights but American pocketbooks, not American lives, have suffered. America may be a land of dollar-worshippers, but there is a finer sense left in us yet which for once has made us look beyond our purses, at the rights...
...moved to protest against compulsory training because we have seen what compulsion has done in so democratic a country as England. We note the fate of the several thousand men whose consciences will not allow them to become part of a military machine whose purpose is the destruction of life. We recognize that conscription laws usually provide for conscientious scruples, but unfortunately the men who are appointed to judge the validity of these scruples are either military men or civilians of a military mind. They are unable to comprehend the workings of a conscience different from their own. These British...
Milton Tenney MacDonald '18, of Worcester, and John Lavalle '18, of Boston, have been appointed to the Junion Dance committee. Owing to the small number of men who have applied for tickets and invitations, and committee has decided to allow applications to be sent in until Monday. This will be the last day, however. Blanks have also been sent out to all class officers and members of the 1917 dance committee last year, and it is requested that they return their blanks also before Monday...
...organized country in the world to lay itself open to attack." Coolidge also stated that he considered it far more advisable to provide for a training term of two months in four years instead of six months in one year. In that case the stores and business concerns could allow for summer absences and reserve places for their employees. The officers reserve corps could be drawn upon to command the troops and thus relieve those of the regular army...