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...demand the right of way on all canals and railroads for the transportation not only of civilian supplies but of war supplies amounts to a denial of Dutch neutrality. Control of transit is a vital function of every nation. To submit to foreign dictation is to abandon sovereignty. Moreover, the obligation of neutrality demands that Holland refuse any step which will be of direct gain to the enemy in its prosecution of the war. This side of the affair is clear, the laws of nationality and neutrality make the acceptance of the proposal impossible...
There will be a lecture by Professor Ward in Geological Lecture Room, March 28, at 7.15. Subject, "Meteorology on the Foreign Fronts." March...
...French Exchange Professor at Harvard), and Professor J. H. Woods. The task of the Committee is to collect methodically all available information concerning the trend of public opinion in America, both for a better understanding in France of the American point of view, and for use by the French Foreign Office, War Office and other branches of Government. The Committee wants chiefly clippings from newspapers, giving not so much items of news, as expressions of opinion, in leading articles, reports of speeches, sermons, and lectures, reviews, etc. A young Harvard graduate is about to be appointed at the Committee...
...Citizens' of Foreign Birth or Descent Liberty Loan Committee of Boston is anxious to secure a dozen or more University undergraduates to assist in the work on the next Loan drive. Ability to speak foreign languages is not necessary, although it would be of great aid. The greater part of the work consists of arranging and sorting out circulars and applications, etc. Last fall and spring valuable assistance was rendered this committee by a similar group of students. The next campaign will not start until early April and will last about four weeks. It is for this time that...
...Memorial Library includes not only many of Meeker's own books, but also many other volumes by American and foreign authors. A particular attempt was made to secure publications dealing with the University, its history and its graduates, and many other books of reference were included. Among the volumes are complete sets of Dickens, Thackeray, Scott, Stevenson, Tolstoi, Turgenieff, Austen, Poe, Kipling, Hugo, Warner, Lowell, Holmes, Smollett, Fielding, Chaucer, de Maupassant, O. Henry, Newton, Pope, Burns, Spenser, Eliot, Hawthorne, Bulwer, Lever, Harte, Voltaire and Mulhbach. The Encyclopedia Britannica and complete editions of the "Spectator" and "Tatler" are also included...