Word: hands
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There is no reason to see the hand of Germany in their announcement. While it is unfortunately true that the Petrograd Council is controlled by the extreme radicals or Bolsheviki the Central Executive Committee is not under foreign influence. The relations between the National Council of Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates, represented by the Central Committee with the Kerensky government have been variable and uncertain. Recently M. Kerensky has himself been termed a 'bourgeois,' but it is still favorable that these proposals represent many of the ideas of the middle as well as of the lower classes...
...Liberty Bonds in the University were about the same as for the day before, but less than that collected during the first days of the campaign. The Committee had hoped that the last day of Liberty Bond Week would bring in a large amount. According to the figures on hand a little over $2,000 was collected. The total for the six days' campaign is approximately $25,000, of which amount $1,350 came from Team 6 yesterday, which now leads the competition with a collection of $6,550. The total amounts subscribed to through the teams which have handed...
...Harvard 5 tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. Each candidate should come prepared to speak for five minutes on either side of the question: "Resolved, that in the light of recent events, the Monroe Doctrine has been rendered obsolete, and should be abolished." The judges will be on hand fifteen or twenty minutes before the hour appointed in order that men who are free at that time may finish their speeches earlier...
...hard to tell which of these aspects is the more important. The military defeat of Germany would destroy the militarism of the imperialists. On the other hand, a re-assertion on the part of all the allies of the principles of President Wilson and the new Russian democracy, as well as their actual interpretation, would split the democratic from the imperialistic elements in Germany. Such a movement would accomplish our armies in the war no less than military success. The United States does not have to go through three years of war to find out that it is fighting...
...half of political isolation from Europe, the United States will take part, perhaps a decisive part, in the war conference of the entente allies in Paris. For the first time in our history as a nation we will enter the maelstrom of European politics and take a hand in the solution of its problems. Fear of entangling alliances is gone. The economic and physical barriers between this country and Europe have long since disappeared. The need of combined action against a common enemy has now destroyed the last trace of our political isolation...