Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...should be noted that such a memorial would fill what amounts to a crying need in the College today. Harvard stands almost alone among the large universities in the lack of a University Theatre of some sort, and yet she is recognized as the leading American college in actual accomplishment in the theatrical field. She has contributed more men that make the theatre worth while than any other college...
...Phillips Brooks House Association has decided to postpone the annual old clothes and text-book collection until the second week in April. This decision was reached in consideration of a similar drive to be conducted throughout New England under the auspices of the New England Chapter of the American Red Cross Association during the last week in March. Since the Red Cross Drive is to have very much the same aim as the Phillips Brooks House Collection, it was thought wiser to postpone the latter for two weeks...
Reports are beginning to reach this country of ill-feeling and disturbances between French and American soldiers and between British and Americans. Certain newspapers--not necessarily intentionally--distort the actual facts, magnify trivial incidents and in general do a great deal to spread the seeds of discord that the Boche have taken such pains to sow. Headlines such as the following may be seen almost daily in the news-papers: "British Even More Bitter Against Americans Than French"; "Charm of La Belle France a Myth"; "French Glad to See Last of Americans"; "Dislike on All Sides in England"; "Doughboys Receive...
...certain prestige which victory will assure them. Certainly the development of such a team is not normal. Moreover, the temptation has been too powerful to be overcome, and strong players have been enticed to small institutions by means which would not bear publication. It is to the credit of American college sport that on the whole small institutions have resisted this temptation...
...terrible instance of one of our own American shortcomings is illuminated. These outlaws (the Bolsheviki) are largely Russian Jews, whom we permitted to breed anarchy in the slums of New York. We have long had the problem of the city slum, and we have failed to deal with it. We have acquiesced in a twofold condition whereby great hordes of foreigners are unable--sometimes unwilling--to live according to American standards of living, and who, by their degradation no less than by their words, have poisoned the minds of other foreigners against this nation, which once had been the ideal...