Word: despatching
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...Department of Labor has made a wise move, if, as a recent Washington despatch announced, it has issued an order exempting from the provisions of the three per cent immigration law, students from foreign countries coming to the United States to study in American schools, colleges and universities. Under the present immigration law, the annual quota of each foreign country must not exceed 3 per cent of the total number of its nationals which the last census gives as residents of the United States. In the long run, the enforcement of this rule is bound to keep...
...very ably representative qualities he brings to his new position. There is always a demand, as there is a need, that the fellows of the University should not be wholly drawn from among men resident here in Boston, however much it might contribute to the prompt and easy despatch of Harvard's business to have them so chosen. Since the death of Mr. Robert Bacon, this need of outside representation had gone unfulfilled. Mr. Byrne's appointment supplies it. A New York lawyer of the first rank, a man who has manifested his interest in education and the things...
More than one million books have been shipped overseas by the American Library Association's Despatch Office since its establishment under Dr. C. O. Mawson in the basement of Widener Library last June. Fully three-quarters of a million more books are still needed, for which purpose a campaign for the collection of reading matter will shortly begin...
Major General Squire, Chief of the Signal Corps and Director of Aviation during the war, has approved of the intercollegiate flying contests which are to be held at Atlantic City this spring and summer. According to a recent despatch he said, "I strongly favor the plan. This proposition offers a new and chivalrous sport for the Colleges to compete in, and I ardently hope that the scheme will be a success. There are thousands of men in the colleges who have been fliers in the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps Air Service so there is an abundance of material...
...Phillip Gibbs, the British war correspondent when interviewed by a CRIMSON reporter soon after his arrival in Boston yesterday. "When the storm burst we had only our small regular army of about seven divisions known as the "contemptible." Two hundred and fifty students from Cambridge joined this army as despatch riders, not waiting to receive commissions. The service these men rendered was huge. They were the only motorcycle despatch carriers and accomplished wonders in the retreat from Mons, riding straight into the unknown German gas until they dropped from their machines. These men were exceptions, however, for the volunteer army...