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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...wouldn't it be a little more like "the thing" to figure that "c'est la guerre." Since the war started Lloyd George has shipped all London's red tape to "blighty" or as that Guy Empey might say, "west"; south would be more to the correct atmospheric direction. One half of the classes are at war and probably the situation is a case of shipping red tape even in such a minor matter as Harvard's class elections. Let us think...

Author: By W. J. Murray ., | Title: "Rhyme and Reason" in Illustrated | 11/6/1917 | See Source »

...evident (proof by the cover) that Secretary Baker is pleased with all he views. It doesn't sound correct but look in the opposite direction from that which President Lowell is pointing (pages 13, 14, 15) and it is possible to see what the Secretary and President Lowell are reviewing...

Author: By W. J. Murray ., | Title: "Rhyme and Reason" in Illustrated | 11/6/1917 | See Source »

...National Committee on Friendly Relations, in his address last evening to the Chinese students of Greater Boston at the meeting of the Cosmopolitan Club in Phillips Brooks House. "It would be a very good thing if Chinese students in this country would contribute to our magazines and correct some of the wrong, but popular, impressions in regard to their native land...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "AMERICA SISTER TO CHINA" | 10/30/1917 | See Source »

...should like to correct the passage in the CRIMSON'S account of my address before the Cosmopolitan Club on Friday evening, in which I am represented as having spoken of the Russian Socialist parties as "led by men who for the most part are not honest fighters for an ideal, but German agents, who wish to stop the war and incourage a social revolution." Naturally, I made no such sweeping and unjustifiable indictment. But I did use substantially the words cited above with regard to some leaders of the most radical wing of the Russian Socialists, the Bolsheviki. This statement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Only Bolsheviki Are German Agents. | 10/30/1917 | See Source »

Coach Rollins put both first and second teams through long drills yesterday to correct the weak points uncovered in Thursday's scrimmage. Both offensive and defensive formations of the forward pass were given a final rehearsal. E. W. Mahan '16, captain of the victorious 1915 University team, now in the Marine Corps, watched the team at practice yesterday, offering a few suggestions. The informals go to Ayer in automobiles leaving...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN CLASH WITH WORCESTER IN STADIUM | 10/27/1917 | See Source »

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