Word: branches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Practicality does not thrive in circumstances where shortage of officers makes it necessary to detail, as instructors with civilian components, officers who have not had sufficient duty with a unit of their own branch of service. Practicality does not thrive in inactive units, depleted strengths, imaginary maneuvers, paper plans, fictitious reserve stocks and theoretical weapons...
Clearly the President and Fellows have been seriously at fault. It is true that they, comprising the Corporation, acted technically within their right in neglecting Professor Baker and his branch of the English Department. But here was a matter affecting in a most profound way Harvard policy, and although the Board of Overseers is responsible for the acts of the Corporation and may be consulted by it at any time and may alter its actions, yet in this case not one inkling of Baker's struggle was ever allowed to reach the Overseers, the elected representatives of the alumni...
...reviews which are expected for this special number of the Bookshelf is a review of "My Duel with the Vatican" by Alfred Loisy, which will be written by Professor R. B. Perry '99, Professor of Philosophy. Francis E. Bowman '24, Assistant in English, will review "Straws", by James Branch Cabell...
...James Branch Cabell, in Straws and Prayer-books,** permits his admirers to share with him a reticent heartache at the depressing reflection that a few centuries hence his name may be emblazoned in literary memory only as "the author of Jurgen"? his other works known only to the discriminating...
...will of Mary R. Richardson, of Newport, R. I., $1,000,000 was bequeathed to the Massachusetts General Hospital to be used for the construction of a branch of that institution "in which all of the beds are to be devoted to the care of persons of the middle class." It has been found that under present conditions in medicine the best medical attention is secured by the rich who are able to command the best type of service, and by the poor to whom such service is frequently given gratis...