Word: farness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...from alumni, business men of Boston, and students of other colleges. To date 587 have enrolled in the Corps at the Recorder's office since the Easter recess; of this number 36 have been finally rejected because of physical disqualification or other reasons. Of the remainder 439 have so far been enlisted, making the total number of the Corps at present, not counting the men called to Plattsburg, over 900. President Hadley of Yale was in conference with President Lowell yesterday, and it is believed that several hundred men of that institution will report for duty at the camp established...
...entirely impartial and purposely noncommittal court, we might say that the honors between our two distinguished graduates were about even, although those honors, in so far as they descended into personalities, were not so great...
...Cross to organize. The functions of the Red Cross Ambulance Companies correspond with those of the Evacuation Ambulance Companies of the regular army. They will probably be used mainly in the transportation of the sick and wounded from the front to hospitals along the line of communication as far back as the base hospitals. But although their duties are mainly to furnish transportation for the injured the personnel may be used in whole or in part to man hospital trains, hospital ships, or if the need is great, the emergency hospitals
...overlook the increased efficiency of all classes which is sure to result from the abolition of the liquor business. When Lloyd George made his famous statement: "We are fighting Germany, Austria, and Drink, and so far as I can see, the greatest of these three deadly foes is Drink," he was thinking of the slowing-down of the production of munitions by the drunkenness of the workman. America, too, has drunken workmen, and they should be made sober. Moreover, the cost of food is, and will be, very great, so that no man should be permitted to spend on liquor...
...resources of our country are great, they are incomprehensible save by the mind that may reckon in millions. But the need of the world is greater, and its dire famine far more incomprehensible. The very utmost producing power we may muster from our whole continent may well be needed before we have fulfilled that which we are called upon to do by our allies of Europe, and those small neutral nations which are stricken by a war in which they have no share nor control...