Word: farness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...February, 1917 Col. Cabot definitely took over the unit which had increased from five hundred and forty to three thousand beds. By far the larger number of the patients were British and Canadians who had been wounded in the fighting around Ypres. At one time, during the German offensive of March, 1918, twelve hundred patients were received by the unit within twenty-four hours...
...far as is known, this unit was the only British military organization of any kind which was commanded by Americans in the British service. The work of the unit was praised several times by British officers of high rank...
...first Illustrated will appear tomorrow, and it will continue to be issued semi-monthly as before. This issue will contain, as far as possible, a resume of the work done by Harvard and Harvard men in the war. Another feature is the farewell address to the R. O. T. C., written for the Illustrated by Professor Andre Morize. There will be nine more issues before the end of the college year...
...points out, a case of discrimination. It is merely extending to the capable sudents the advantages that they deserve. American universities offer too few of such advantages, far fewer than most European universities. Is it not right for an institution with the age and prestige of Harvard to point the way to a higher standard rather than to fall back to the admittedly inferior standard of today? Is it not our privilege to assert the fallacy of a system that prepares its scholars for college four years later and far less thoroughly than do the public schools of France...
Either through selfish carelessness or dishonesty the unusual privileges of the Farnsworth Room in the Widener Library are being abused. The unfortunate side of it is that this tendency is increasing as time goes on. The first year only one book was lost. Thus far this year more books have disappeared than during the preceding two years together. It ought to be understood by this time that "The books of the Farnsworth Room are to be used in the room only. They are not to be borrowed or taken away...