Word: englanders
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...they wish; thus the Massachusetts Agricultural College is organizing the farmers of the state in order that the coming food crop will be the maximum in size; other institutions are giving special courses in military medicine; the Tufts wireless station is offered as a central wireless station for New England; the students at Smith, Wellesley and Mount Holyoke are engaged in Red Cross work; and Western Reserve has already formed an ambulance unit of more than 100 men. Nearly all the colleges and universities are taking a census of their alumni in order that all resources may be utilized immediately...
Moreover, the chemical laboratories of Johns Hopkins, Pennsylvania, Columbia and numerous other colleges have been opened to Government experts. Likewise the great Tufts wireless tower is offered as a central station for New England...
...time is coming when they will need the financial aid of this country, and need it badly. I talked with a major of one of the British prison camps, and he told me that the German soldiers all believe that they are winning, but the spirit of France and England is as high as ever...
...experience in France has made me feel that the United States should be pretty slow in going into war, as men who know what real war is realize that it is all too horrible to enter lightly. The feeling in England and France towards America has changed tremendously during the past three months. When I arrived in England there was that sneering attitude common with the majority of the people, but their attitude is different now since they feel that the United States is with them. In Paris the Americans are especially admired, the American Ambulance Corps maintaining a large...
...Revolutionary period there were only about one hundred and fifty students enrolled in Harvard College, most of whom were very much younger than the average college man of today, but no less ardent in their love of liberty. General Washington first took command of the assembled troops of New England before the walls of Harvard College, and later the soldiers were quartered in the dormitories. During this period Harvard was moved to Concord for fourteen months. The Faculty did all they could to help the officers, and so appreciated General Washington's work that after the evacuation of Boston...