Word: central
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...instructive narrative of what he actually saw during eleven months in Russia. During these months Mr. Humphries was successively employed by the United States Committee of Public Information, the Red Cross and the Young Men's Christian Association. Mr. Humphries has had exceptional opportunities for observing conditions in Central Russia and Siberia, having been present at the signing of the Brest-Litovsk treaty, at the disbanding of the famous Constituent Assembly, and at two of the All-Russian Congresses of Soviets, as well as on other important political occasions...
...titles of the individual lectures in the other three courses are not yet ready to be announced. Professor Coolidge will lecture on "The New States of Central Europe.' This course will comprise eight lectures, to be given on Tuesdays and Fridays at 8 o'clock, beginning on February...
...particular work of Mr. David will be to bring about a closer relationship between the students and the central Business School Office. Heretofore the matter of centralization has been over-looked, but, if the present plans are successful, the office in University Hall will in the future control all the work that is carried on in the school...
...Chambers of Commerce, the American Legion, the Non-Partisan League, and the American Federation of Labor, occasionally carry on agitation and bring pressure to bear in order to influence legislation. And government in America has been defined as the result of the pressure of these organized opinions on the Central Legislative Body. But the great mass of American sentiment remains unorganized, and expresses itself only through admittedly inadequate mediums--individual communications, mass meetings called for special purposes, and the passing of occasional resolutions. Any movement of a new group to make its influence felt in the time between elections points...
Evidence is becoming overwhelming that, in spite of the wordy smoke-screen and conciliatory barrage emanating from Berlin, German character has not much changed with defeat. This is partly due to the Teutonic mind which refused to believe that the Central Powers were crushed; partly due to the obvious facts that old international jealousies and frictions are cropping out among the Allies. But whatever the causes of the regeneration of the old Prussian arrogance, the world is endangered until the Germans are made to realize that they must turn over a new leaf...