Word: booked
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Service has been reopened in Grays 17. Members of the committee in charge will be there daily except Saturdays from 5 until 6 o'clock to see all men who contemplate entering the Service. Letters have been sent to the 80 men who signed up in the committee's book at the Allied Bazaar last month with a view to sending a large proportion of them to France in the immediate future...
Plans are being made for the production of a Cambridge pageant to take place in the Stadium next spring. Professor G. P. Baker '87, of the Department of English, who has helped produce several pageants, is preparing to write the book. Those who have the pageant in charge plan to take advantage of the impressive historical setting of Cambridge and the opportunity offered by the Stadium for staging such a spectacle to picture to the children of this vicinity especially, the part that Cambridge has played in American history. It is the intention, furthermore, to have children take part...
During the latter part of December the Macmillan Publishing Company withdrew from circulation the recently published book by Dr. Edmund von Mach '95, entitled "Official Diplomatic Documents Relating to the Outbreak of the European War." The volume was placed in circulation last September and after three months of sale was withdrawn without the knowledge of the author, the alleged reason being that it was inaccurate in certain important details. The work was compiled as a standard for students, present and future, of this period in history...
...Only the official British translations of the dispatches of the European nations were used in my book, so that all thought or possibility of bias might be removed," said Professor Edmund von Mach '95, in discussing the withdrawal from circulation of his book, to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday afternoon. "The action of the Macmillan Publishing Company constitutes a breach of contract on their part, and a secret one. I had no warning of the suppression of the book until informed of it through the New York World...
After discussing the purpose of the book, which is to give a correct and non-partisan account of the events which led to the outbreak of the European War, by a chronological use of the published dispatches of the nations involved, Professor von Mach pointed out several statements from the Entente nations which tend to show that the action of Great Britain in the closing days of July, 1914, was decidedly incriminating. "It is undoubtedly some foreign influence, financial or otherwise, which has caused the removal of my book from circulation and the attempts of the Macmillan Company...