Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Harvard has long prided itself on an institution probably unique in American colleges: voluntary chapel. In practically every other institution in the country attendance at morning prayers is compulsory. There is a grave possibility at the present time, however, that chapel here will have to lose its voluntary character or cease to exist, if the interest of the undergraduates in its future does not increase materially. The figures of the Phillips Brooks House Chapel Committee report show that the daily attendance this year has been as low as 30, with a general average since December 1 of about 45. These...
...Richard Pearson Strong, Professor of Tropical Medicine at the University Medical School, and now a major in the Medical Reserve Corps, has just been placed at the head of the Section of Infections of the American forces in France. The work of this Section is concerned with the control and prevention of epidemics of easily transmissible diseases. His work also includes the collection and distribution of all information dealing with such diseases, so that all of the Allied armies may benefit by the results of the Section's findings...
...bringing down a German plane recently, Lieutenant Douglas Campbell '17 has won the Croix de Guerre, as well as the congratulations of the French general commanding the zone in which the machine was downed. It is believed that he is the first graduate of a strictly American aviation school to bring down a German plane...
That caused "protectionists" to sit up and take notice that the President is a dangerous man. So he is to privilege mongers and privilege seekers. The "American Protective Tariff League" is out in angry opposition. On January 17 they declared that they "recognize in this latest assault upon the doctrine of true Americanism, by the President, fresh reason for presenting a solid, united, aggressive front for a nation-wide educational propaganda for the restoration of Protection...
...tossed aside lightly. If the party system is a bad thing in time of war, it is just as pernicious in time of peace. The character of candidates ought to be a consideration of importance, but it does not mean obliteration of parties. Of course, all platforms will be American. They will be composed of one big plank--Victory, And yet there are many ways of obtaining this national goal. Destroy the parties and you kill all criticism, the right kind of which is essential even in a crisis. If we have arrived at that state where all the voters...