Word: evens
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Shifting the burden of war costs" is a theory advanced by many who maintain that "this generation is fighting the war; let the next finance it." A plausible, even if not very altruistic, attitude toward the burdens of our time, but unfortunately entirely out of accord with economics...
...popular and valuable? In asking this question there is neither attempt nor desire to minimize the great service which Harvard has rendered the nation. The men it educated at the Fresh Pond trenches and at Barre made an excellent showing at the subsequent Plattsburg, and they are making an even better showing today as officers in the National Army. But Harvard's camp was an infantry camp to train infantry officers. Artillery, signal corps and engineer officers are just as urgently needed. Let the colleges devoted to these varying interests poor their resources. Let the infantry of Harvard, the artillery...
Throughout the winter the prolonged cold spell affected even the Southern camps, and flying was somewhat curtailed. Now that the warm weather has come, many more machines are in the air, and necessarily there are more accidents. As time goes on, also, more new planes are put into operation, and therefore much more flying is done. Our mortality statistics, if compared with those of the Royal Flying Corps camps in Texas and elsewhere, are very favorable, and yet these camps are not considered to be carelessly conducted...
Only about 30 men reported yesterday afternoon for the first track work of the season, the lack of field event candidates being even more apparent than it has been in previous years. Coach Donovan expressed his disappointment at the small number...
...assaults the Catholic Church in America and all the other churches in America. Unfortunately he has not reconnoitered the enemy's position; he knows very little about Protestant theology, and less, if anything, about Catholic theology, discipline, education, or policy. Nor has he waited for ammunition; he has not even facts enough to fill one small hand-grenade, so all he can hurl at the ecclesiastical trenches is denunciation. He dies bravely, well outside the unbreached entanglements...