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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...present backing and filling of the Liberty bonds of both issues in the market is incident to placing of such a large amount of securities and will be speedily adjusted as the bonds find a final resting place in the hands of permanent holders. On every moderate recession they offer a great opportunity to obtain profitable investment in the safest securities on earth. Boston Transcript...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Paying For the Bonds. | 11/24/1917 | See Source »

...scar on their fair surface. We have grown accustomed to chaos, to climbing up temporary stairways, winding through improvised galleries, or hurdling over a zone of desolation like that in France. If the change proposed be made too suddenly, average New Yorkers will need a pocket guide to find their way around town with. But nothing so radical is really intended. "Of course," says the messenger of hope, "this clearing of the streets does not mean that the smooth pavement will go down by that time, because the pavement cannot be laid until several months after the temporary pavement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 11/22/1917 | See Source »

...smooth play of the team today. Light scrimmages with the informals and the Navy Yard have also been held that the new coaches, including L. H. Leary '05, M. J. Logan '15, K. B. G. Parson '16 and F. J. Bradlee '15 might see the team in action to find its weak points...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON FRESHMEN END LONG SUCCESSFUL SEASON | 11/17/1917 | See Source »

...irreproachable. Mr. Davis' "The Lord's Prayer" is touching enough. We do not wonder that the Belgian children were unable to forgive the Germans. Such forgiveness comes only with understanding. Of the other stories, "A Tale" is perhaps the most arresting, in spite of the conventional pessimism which we find also in Mr. Slingerland's story...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Current Advocate Average | 11/10/1917 | See Source »

...standards. The benefits are not unmixed with evils. Men now and then get into uniforms who are inclined to overwork the authority which they symbolize and who offend us by vanity or by insolence. These however, are the exceptions, and we may feel confident that they will one day find their due levels. Upon the whole, uniforms in the national service make for a spirit of noblesse oblige, especially in the junior ranks. And so long as they are in the main obtainable on merit and without favoritism, they cannot be fairly called undemocratic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Uniforms | 11/10/1917 | See Source »

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