Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Washington today is filled with college professors, who are drawn, like so many others, by that irresistable attraction which the capitol of any republic possesses in times of great stress or governmental reorganization. They are busily engaged in every department of government, on every form of war work. The intelligence department of the Army War College is paying them high salaries to translate the letters and documents of the German war prisoners; they are drawing charts and fixing prices in the Food Administration; many are organizing the resources of the country on the Council of National Defense. They have even...
...civilians parade on Fifth Avenue. The familiar cloudblue, sand-brown, and leaf-green uniforms will be passe as are hoop skirts now. We may suppose an army clad in giraffe spots combatting victoriously at Potsdam, and taking time to change to ostrich-white and black before entering the capitol in triumph...
...Clarence D. Ussher told of his experiences before and during the siege of Van at the last meeting of the Graduate Schools Society in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House last night. Dr. Ussher was a medical missionary in the city of Van, the ancient capitol of Armenia, when the war broke...
...Harvard Historical Series Professor C. H. McIlwain '03 G. has published a reprint of the Indian Records of New York State. When the Capitol at Albany was burned, Professor McIlwain's transcript of the records was the only copy in existence...
...issue of the Harvard Illustrated Magazine has all the interest and advantage of timeliness dealing as it does, most pertinently with our immediate political situation. The note for the issue is already struck on the cover which bears an excellent print of the great steel dome, erected over the Capitol at Washington during the troublous years of the Civil...