Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Military Training Committee elected recently by the Princeton Plattsburg men has decided to establish a lecture course in the fundamentals of military science. The object of the lectures will be to explain to the students some of the principles of modern war, and to serve as an introduction to the work in the student summer military camps. The lectures will be given by officers of the regular army who will be sent down from Governor's Island for that purpose...
...nations with individuals. A nation is really one big individual composed of many smaller ones, and it should be treated as such. When quarrels arise between individuals, they are decided by going to court. Why should not international disputes be decided in the same way? That is, why not establish an international court, composed of representatives from all countries? This is in part, what the League to Enforce Peace proposes to do. Some people argue that international law is sufficient to take care of disputes between nations, but international law is, at best, indefinite and a constant subject of dispute...
...simple enumeration of Dr. Davison's activities is sufficient to establish the value of his services. For these services, is due the appreciation and gratitude of the community in which he has worked...
...custom of long standing is revived in the series of vesper services held this year in Appleton Chapel. They were discontinued several years ago, mainly be-cause of the small number of undergraduates who attended. An effort has been made recently to re-establish the custom. Eminent ministers have been invited to conduct the services and appropriate musical programs have been arranged for the University Choir. This afternoon Bishop Williams, of Michigan, will speak and Dr. Davison will conduct special music by the choir. As only two more services are to be given this year, every one should take advantage...
...obvious method of employing them at Memorial should surely be made. Then some encouraging reply, promising definite employment, could be given to those men from other parts of the country who wish to come to Harvard and, unfamiliar with conditions in the East, need steady work until they can establish themselves. Such men, an increasing number of whom in the last few years have distinguished themselves scholastically, and as leaders in college activities, are a distinct credit to the University, and the opportunity of obtaining more by the adoption of an obvious scheme is in itself argument enough...