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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...issue of supplies. The course is intended for prospective officers of the line who will serve with troops: it is not intended for candidates for Quartermaster Corps work in either supply service of the interior or supply service of the line of communications. It will be limited to seventy-five men, who will be detailed temporarily from the R. O. T. C. to give most of their time, for the period, to this work...
Yesterday at ten of the morning, near Memphis, Tennessee, a mob of five thousand white men burned with fire a negro to the death. The negro had been accused of the commission of a capital crime. Under the law he deserved death according...
...those five thousand white men did not administer death according to the law. They seized the negro from a willing sheriff's posse, which was sworn by all honor to uphold the law. They hold him awaiting the final torture, while excursion trains ran from the city, while business houses shut down as for a holiday, while pleasure-seekers came by motor from the whole country-side to witness this festival. This festival of debauchery...
...growing knowledge of the part it must accomplish in this agonizing war. Our young men notably have shown themselves eager for service in a manner no less honorable and courageous than in the past. We are preparing to send great armies to Europe of a half-million men of five million men if we need to do so. That is in accord with our strength. Yet five hundred thousand men alone will not turn the tide of war to victory. We need arms, we need ammunition to untold amounts, we need supplies of all kinds, to elevate our troops...
...Class of 1898, receiving the degree of A.B. The following year he was awarded his A.M., and in 1901 he received the degree of Ph.D. At that time Professor Yerkes began his teaching and investigating work at the University and in 1908 received the assistant professorship in his department. Five years later he was appointed psychologist to the Psychopathic Hospital, Boston. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the American Psychological Association, and the American Societies of Naturalists and Zoologists. As an author he is known for numerous works...