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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Kennelly, A.M., S.D., professor of electrical engineering, are to give series of Lowell Institute lectures beginning next Monday. Professor Ferguson's talks will be on "Greece--the Forerunner of Europe," and are divided into the following groups: 1. The Great Analogy. 2. Greek and Modern Nationalism. 3. The Difficult and Dubious Domain of Economics. 4. Democracy and the Social Question. 5. The Eastern Question. 6. Small Nations and Large States. 7. Autocracy versus Federalism in the Balkans. 8. The Roman Hegemony. Liberty in its Relation to Culture...
...French army is learning baseball rapidly. They like for its speed and excitement, but they have found American terms very difficult. A poilu simply cannot wrap his tongue around such words as "catcher", "base hit", and "umpire...
...along here that all the fighting is now going on in which the American troops are taking part. It was a difficult task that had been given them--to clear the Argonne Forest of Germans, but it has been done at a great cost. However, the fighting is now in the open and things ought to go on more rapidly...
...large majority of the men in College have on their programs what we may call "war courses." An armistice with Germany would seemingly deprive them of all need or incentive for performing this work efficiently; and it is indeed difficult to see the connection between the prospect of a long period of peace and intensive study in military science and tactics. But we must remember that no matter what may have happened in Europe, men enrolled in the S. A. T. C. remain soldiers in the United States Army and as such must attend to their work just as loyally...
...college men to do social service work at the various churches and settlement houses in Boston and Cambridge. Many of these calls present rare opportunities to men who like the work. Owing to the small number of men in College who are free from military engagements, it has been difficult to fill the requests sent in. It is hoped that all men who are interested and can spare even a very little time will present themselves to the Social Service Secretary as soon as possible. The need is for teachers of elementary subjects, leaders of boys' clubs, scout masters, Sunday...