Word: englanders
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This is a very serious result. Von Tirpitz has sent to the bottom in one short year three times as many ships as have been put in commission by our own ship yards and those of England. The unfortunate disputes and delays in our shipping program have been partly responsible for this result, which has been so favorable for the U-boats...
...college presidents of New England, Governor McCall, Mayor Peters, and other prominent men are to be the guests of honor, and will be given an informal reception by the groups from the various colleges...
Other colleges in New England are making a survey of the industrial capabilities of their students and canvassing the needs of employers engaged in war work with a view to placing their men in the vacation war service for which they are individually fitted. Such a survey should be made at Harvard. There are many men here willing and able to give valuable service whose lack of acquaintance and connection with business concerns will prevent them rendering it. Such men, without an organized survey of capabilities and needs, are likely to drift into comparatively unimportant summer employment for which they...
...proposition of closing New England colleges because of the coal shortage seems little short of pure ridiculousness. The Fuel Administration is expected to give its decision on this subject today, but if the administration is possessed of the intellect necessary for its work, it can return but one answer and that is in the negative. In the first place, nearly every college in New England is either directly or indirectly furnishing valuable aid to the Government in its military preparedness. This aid is essential, for the Germans are not through with attempting to sink transports. If the present program...
...conference of the heads of universities and colleges of New England was called last Saturday by Fuel Administrator James J. Storrow '85 to discuss the question of closing all the colleges as a means of economizing coal in the present fuel crisis. Although the proposal had received considerable support from the conservation officials, the arguments put forth by the assembled presidents demonstrated that it would not be practical. Mr. Storrow is withholding his final opinion on the subject until today, but it seems improbable that he will order any limitation of the college sessions. "I am inclined...