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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Lastly, there is in and around the Yard a fair number of men with whom, in class or out, I have had some personal contact. Most if not all of these men I count as friends. They will probably have heard me mention, the word "truth"; and, in the course of a half-year, two or three other words. They will have observed, I hope, or if not my work here has been a failure, a certain attitude towards the universe and towards life--a fairly definite attitude. I desire these men, at least, to do what in them lies...
...that we are willfully careless. We all feel subconsciously that college work does not count so much now. It is a natural feeling, but it is none the less fallacious. Study is difficult, but it is more important than it has been for years. And so we demand from you, Mr. Undergraduate, whether you are hoping to be in service soon or not, that you do your utmost. Those who are on probation may have arrived there through excusable sins, but they deserve to be treated with gloves no longer. They are a disgrace to a Harvard attempting to give...
...true instinct of immediate self-preservation which destroyed the Russian resistance is likely to spread to Western Europe if its peoples are called upon to face a fifth and a sixth year of war. We hope that Germany feels this influence first but we cannot count upon this. Half a million Americans in action this year may avail more than two millions a year from now if the Allies should lose their punch. Let the American force, small as it is, play an important part in the air, on the sea, and on land during the coming campaign...
Book production in the United States for the year 1917, according to returns just completed, reached a total of 10,060 titles, a falling off of 385 from the count for 1916. The absolutely new books of the year were 8,849, as against 9,160 for the year before. American authors, who furnished 8,430 of the books of 1916, contributed but 8,107 to the lists for 1917. Imported books fell from 1,648 to 1,324 in the two-year period of comparison; American prints of foreign works rose from 367 to 629, this increase being accounted...
...board of trustees of the University of Pennsylvania has unanimously adopted a resolution striking the names of Emperor William of Germany and Count von Bernstorff, former German ambassador to the United States, from the university list of those holding honorary degrees...