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...victory and that this supply depended, under the conditions of today, on getting ammonium nitrate in sufficient quantities. This, of course, is a chemical problem, and Germany gained an immense advantage by foreseeing its significance and preparing for it. We, after eight months of war, are only beginning to erect the necessary plants, and it will be many more months before they can produce anything. Meanwhile, a large army of chemists must be employed in developing and improving the processes to be used in the production of the essential ingredients of modern high explosives. Think of another problem, or group...
Today a nation-wide campaign starts to raise "a million dollars for a million books for a million men." It is to continue throughout what has been dubbed Camp Library Week. The Library War Council appointed by the Secretary of War intends to erect a comfortable library and fill it with good books at each of the thirty-two cantonments and the numerous training camps. This short explanation of the Council's aim is enough in itself. We need bestow no elaborate praise on so worthy a motive for raising money, since he who wrote "We may live without books...
...invited to attend. The price of admission will be $1.50 per person payable at the door. A limited number of tickets is now available and these may be purchased from the steward. Refreshments will be served inside the Club House this year, as it has been decided not to erect the pavilion which has been done heretofore...
...barn on the corner of Dunster and Mt. Auburn streets, which has long been in disuse, is now being torn down. This building was erected years ago when cars ran up Mt. Auburn street. It was abandoned when the tracks were removed, and since then has been used at alternate times for a stable and a store-house. The Dunster Realty Company has been used at alternate times for a stable and a store-house. The Dunster Realty Company has taken over the property and it is planned to erect a garage on the site of the old building...
...seems to have completely disregarded the fact that there are these of us who are not impressed with "the cause of liberating France from oppression," other than s a high sounding phrase; that there are those whose sympathies are with the noble causes of nations other than France. To erect in the name of the university a memorial such as was proposed and in the spirit proposed would be to disregard these facts and turn Harvard tolerance into another high-sounding phrase...