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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...deadly enemies. President Wilson has been likened to Lincoln frequently. He, too, has spoken at various times and places of persons opposed to him, particularly of those senators who are maintaining the Constitution against the new personally conducted League of Nations, and thus presuming to block his ends. It began last February, after the evening at the White House when he highly entertained the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations with his exposition of the first unalterable constitution of the League of Nations. Later he stated that those men, chosen by the American people to represent them, had pygmy minds...
With the opening of the dormitories yesterday, Yale began its 219th year with what is expected to prove the largest registration on record. The freshman class in the academic department alone is by far the largest in Yale history...
...business concerns. Policeman are staying on their jobs, in the face of disfavor of friends and associates, and the risk that, should the deserting corps by any chance be restored they would be subjects of petty persecution, just as the conservatives were in the station houses before the strike began. These loyal policemen have played an heroic part. They deserve well of the community. Boston Herald...
...This seemed large at the time and was based upon the needs of the institution at the time for increased equipment and higher remuneration for the teaching staff. America entered the war, however, within a short time and the plans were dropped until last spring. When the Committee began work again, the first step was a full study of the University. This investigation was made by members of the Committee and graduates during the Old Grads' Summer School in July. Every department of the University was carefully studied in connection with the economic and social developments in the last five...
...general educational scheme, courses in navigation, agricultural botany, and zoology have been added since the war began. There have also been created new courses in business organization, statistics, and accounting, and steps taken for the completer development of a definite School of Commerce and Finance...