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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...student body in its resolutions suggested that the Bennett Fund, left some years ago by a Philadelphia merchant for the education of women at the university, be used to build a separate college for women. This fund now amounts to more than half a million dollars. It was also suggested that the fund might be used in event of the first plan proving impracticable, to employ enough additional instructors and professors to provide separate classes for the men and women students...
...believe that it will inevitably lose it if it dissinates its energies and scatters its forces. Its greatest asset is its record of achievement and its tradition of high purpose and exalted aim. Let us continue to aim high. If we do so and are properly supported we can build up in this community one of the very greatest, if not the greatest centres to be found anywhere in the world of science, pure and applied, for the two must go together--a centre of scientific thought that will profoundly affect the future of this country and of the world...
...already overdue on the amounts pledged before the end of the year. Great difficulty has been encountered in securing payment on the pledges, which the authorities of Phillips Brooks House are anxious to collect, as there is urgent need for all funds available to build the Red Triangle huts in the cantonments in this country and in Europe...
...Perhaps a few words about myself will get me 'oriented,' and give me a bit of framework to build upon. I got my commission in the United States Marines without any trouble, thanks to yours and other letters, and a long lanky frame. Darrah Kelly was under-weight, and no amount of argument and pleading could make up for the deficiency. I felt extremely sorry, but was powerless to do anything. After a few months at Quantico, Va., we got off in the early part of September. As I stood a regular turn in the submarine watch...
...recent visit to Boston. "The work of the Red Cross in France today not only serves to strengthen and support the armies and to keep up the health and morale of the young and old behind the lines, but it is also laying a strong foundation upon which to build a satisfactory and lasting peace after the conclusion of the war. It is helping our men now, and helping to spare them later...