Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...many more will require special assistance and special arrangements of entrance requirements and the like if they are to receive the mental training needed to place them on an equal competitive basis with other men. To reach such individuals the colleges should take positive measures. The opportunities offered by American universities should be definitely presented to crippled American soldiers qualified to accept them, and sufficient funds withdrawn from less urgent activities to provide for their entire maintenance when necessary. In few other ways can the colleges mitigate so effectively the suffering and losses...
Through the courtesy of the artist's children, the Fogg Art Museum is this week enabled to exhibit a collection of pencil drawings and small water colors by William T. Richards, the American landscape painter. These pictures are to remain at the Museum until March...
...become almost proverbial that the easiest way to reach the American is through his pocketbook. Europeans have portrayed us as a money-loving people; our citizen and the "Yankee dollar" have become inseparable in their minds. All this may have been true previous to the last year. At the end of the war, however, Europe will no doubt realize that money-desires were but a veneer upon the true American character...
...gain, these wounds only strengthen our grim determination. For every man fallen, a brother will rise in his place. Life has become clouded, but not destroyed. Each dead man in France lives in the minds of our people. It makes us bitter, but it has called forth a new American spirit. Sacrifice, the greatest power of mankind, has come to permeate our national life. Our sons are gone. "It is for us, the living . . . to be dedicated . . . . . to the unfinished work which they who fought . . . . . . have thus far so nobly advanced...
...Elmer Peter Kohler, Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry, who left for Washington for war research work on the first of this month, has been granted an extended leave of absence to enable him to continue his services there for an indefinite period. He is stationed at the American Experiment Station of the Bureau of Mines as assistant to the Director in charge of research problems...