Word: congress
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...draft bill, so bitterly fought in Congress, and made a law only against the uproarious dissent of various peace advocates and upholders of the national honor, seems already to have worked some large effect, although not one conscript has been called to the front, nor one single boy been torn away from the cherishing arms of his mother...
...Regiment Band, the first battalion of the R. O. T. C., and the colors of the United States, France and the University. The two remaining battalions of the Corps bringing up the rear. The line of march lay along Federal and Milk streets to Postoffice square, thence along Congress, State, Washington and School streets, to the City Hall, where the parade was review by Mayor Curley, and from there along Beacon street to the State House, where Governor McCall reviewed the men. Turning down Dartmouth street the Corps marched along Commonwealth avenue to the Harvard Club, and after being there...
Every college graduating class for the last century or so has heard the appeal to take a live interest in public affairs and to get into the midst of political activities. How well the appeal is being answered appears in a recent study of the personnel of Congress, which shows 380 members of the present House and Senate, or nearly three-fourths of the members, who had a collegiate education. No fewer than 173 colleges and universities are represented. The University of Michigan, with 27 representatives, is far in the lead, holding the pennant that it wrested from Yale...
Note that nine of the 11 institutions that have more than five alumni in Congress are state universities. Note also that such great universities as Princeton, Cornell, Columbia and Pennsylvania have only three representatives each, or no more than several of our smaller New England colleges can boast. The figures perhaps prove little, but they have a very real interest, and we get a vivid impression that college friendships, as well as college intellectual training, count in public life when we see a picture of Speaker Clark and Mr. Mann, leader of the opposition, with their arms across each other...
...first things that Congress ought to do is to provide for military training on a basis of universality. Out of the men thus trained the army would naturally come. This does not mean that everybody would be a fighter, but it does mean that the huge resources of the country would be put at the service of the nation, for such arrangement and distribution and assignment as the public authority decreed...