Word: groups
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...call attention to the resignation of Professor Beard of Columbia because he believes that university to be "under the control of a small and active group of trustees who have no standing in the world of education, who are reactionary and visionless in politics, narrow and medieval in religion"? No more inspiring act in the struggle of intellect against political control has taken place in the last few years. The vociferous martyrdom of Dr. Scott Nearing in the cause of "acadamic freedom," coupled with its demands for three-cent fares in these times of rising operating costs and his recent...
...short biographical sketch of the late Charles W. Harkness of New York City, in whose memory the quadrangle was given, and the formal speech of President Hadley in accepting the prospective group of buildings comprised the chief events of the program. The invocation was given by Dean Charles W. Brown of the Yale School of Religion and the corner-stone was laid by Edward H. Harkness of New York, brother of the former New York business man to whom the buildings are to be a memorial. He was assisted in the formal setting of the stone in place by James...
...Scudder was the next speaker and he outlined a general plan for the campaign next week. Buttons will be given to all subscribers to the loan. A plan was also considered by which a group of men, any one of whom cannot buy a bond for himself, may buy a bond together which will later be sold and the amount and accrued interst divided between them
...centre. Gerrish, a former Dartmouth captain is also playing. Several other former college players could be mentioned. This list has not considered the possibilities in the development of the limitless material at Newport by these men whose capabilities are already known. Other reserve stations, warships, in fact every group of navy men, each has its team, now playing every week with school and college elevens. From these thousands of active participants in football, there can be no doubt as to the quality of the team selected for the championship struggle in November...
...purposes of defense, then reprisals will equalize the military advantage, and maybe even outweigh it, as the Allies now have more machines than their foes. If, on the other hand, the Germans' air raids are a mere exhibition of frightfulness, if they are simple gratifications to some disappointed group of officials, then there is hope that the shedding of German blood and suffering in a few German cities may bring them to their senses. Oft provoked and slow to anger have been the Allies, but now that all else has failed, we must support their stand, and hope that...