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Dates: during 1910-1919
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While we may not agree with all the opinions and policies that President Wilson has at one time or another outlined we cannot deny the magnitude of his achievements in Paris or his courage in holding out against what, at times, seemed overwhelming opposition. Boston welcomes the privilege to extend to him today the first personal recognition from his countrymen in America of his labors on her behalf...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WELCOMING THE PRESIDENT | 2/24/1919 | See Source »

...lyrics are more subtle, weighted with thought, tinged with autumnal melancholy. He was a most fertile composer, and, like all the men of his time and group, produced too much. Yet his patriotic verse was so admirable in feeling and is still so inspiring to his readers that one cannot wish it less in quantity; and in the field of political satire, such as the two series of Bigelow Papers, he had a theme and a method precisely suited to his temperament. No American has approached Lowell's success in this difficult genre: the swift transitions from rural Yankee humor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "WIT, HUMOR, WISDOM" MARK WORK OF JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL | 2/21/1919 | See Source »

...everyone agrees that more men should be encouraged to devote some of their time to exercise, and as it is seen that if equipment were provided more men would be given the advantage which they cannot now afford, and as the Athletic Association is clearly unable to make this its function, the University should devise some method whereby it could better control the financing of athletics, and purchase the outlay which is so essential to the physical development of its students. R. McA. LLOYD...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 2/19/1919 | See Source »

...bill has appeared in Congress it has secured stronger support, so that the present immigration bill is very likely to become law in the next few months. Its purpose is to safeguard the present and future of America from the dangerous accumulation of material, which the melting pot cannot assimilate. Without such provision, this un-American element may continue its present, open and secretabuse of the liberty which every individual possesses under the American system of government, a system whose over throw is plotted, though the plotters for the most part are totally ignorant of its most fundamental principles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MELTIONG POT. | 2/17/1919 | See Source »

...divested the Colege of the last lingering signs of the days of military regime. They were days which, had their advantages and their disadvantages, but undoubtedly very few would elect to live them over again. Let the "peace paint" be applied ever so rapidly, the grim effects of war cannot be effaced too soon from the normal activities in the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPIRIT OF THE TIMES. | 2/14/1919 | See Source »

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