Word: effecting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University football squad was practically given a day off yesterday, for a light practice in the Cage constituted the whole afternoon's work. The effect of the weather on the Stadium field was such that it was deemed inadvisable to hold the work out-doors, and in the limited space of the Cage the only practice possible was signal drill, preceded by a passing practice for the centres. The backs spent their preliminary time brushing up the execution of old plays, while the linemen practiced on getting a quick start in charging. The inclusion of a black-board talk earlier...
Among other of the summer publications of the Press is the "Report of the Expedition of the Harvard School of Tropical Medicine in South America," which is the first study of the kind, and will probably have an important effect on preventive medicine in South America. This work is compiled by Professor Richard P. Strong of the Medical School, who was the head of the recent expedition which was instrumental in stamping out the epidemic of typhus in Servia last spring...
...observe, the members of the league do not bind themselves to accept the award, but only to present their case and hear the decision. Let us consider the probable effect in a concrete case. Take that of the controversy with England about Venezuela, and suppose, what did not happen, that feeling in the two countries had run dangerously high. If the league had consisted, besides these two nations, of France, Germany, Russia, and Japan, neither England nor the United States, however excited, would for a moment have thought of risking war with all the other powers. They would have done...
...objects of all men who desire peace is to reduce the armament of Europe, to lessen the extent of preparation for war. But among their most cherished plans is that of forbidding the sale of munitions by a neutral nation to a belligerent, which would have exactly the opposite effect. It would put a premium on preparedness, for when war broke out the unprepared munitions abroad, would be in a hopeless condition against its neighbor armed to the teeth. If we want to reduce excessive armaments, and the spirit of militarism that goes with them, we must seek to curtail...
...reaching New London in ample time for the University eight-oar race. On returning the special will leave New London as soon as possible after the return of the observation train. Should the race be postponed to another date, the train will leave immediately after official notice to such effect has been made. Round trip tickets from Boston at $5.24 and Providence at $3.14 may be obtained in advance at City Ticket Office, corner of Washington and Court streets, Boston; South Station, Back Bay Station, Union Station, Providence; and Leavitt & Peirce's. No tickets will be sold...