Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University. On this land nonperishable foodstuffs, such as corn, beans, grains and potatoes will be planted. This work is part of the state-wide movement which is being organized by the Massachusetts Committee of Public Safety to bring up the farm acreage of Massachusetts so as to help meet the coming food shortage caused...
...country. This plan is the result of recommendations made by the Yale Medical School, and it is similar to the project adopted in Italy, by which the military hospitals carry with them the clinical faculty and students as medical personnel. This type of organization can render practical help to the army or navy in time of war and instruction may be continued at the base. The expenditure has been authorized by the university of the necessary sums involved in inaugurating this plan, the ultimate expense of which is estimated to be about...
...effort of all college men to strive by hook or crook to fit themselves for commissions in the Reserve Officers' Corps. The work at Harvard, of course, meets the commendation of every one who wishes to see a spirit of patriotism united with a capacity for effective help. I do not doubt that we shall find in Harvard, Yale and Princeton and the other universities the same inspiring devotion for the cause of the country that the great universities or England, Oxford and Cambridge, showed at the outbreak of the war and have continued to show in all the dark...
...this class of men were going to provide the officers for the United States, because from practical experience college men seem to make the best officers. They are usually athletes and accustomed to the co-operation and discipline and team-work of athletics, all of which are a great help to the understanding of military discipline so necessary in the successful army...
...There is no doubt in my mind that the Allies have done the United States a great service during the war in return for the aid given the Allies by this country, for had Germany been able she would have come over to America and demanded an indemnity to help pay her huge debt, and when the war is over there will be an immense amount of evidence to prove this statement. There is absolutely no doubt but that the Zimmermann note had more behind it than was published, and there are hundreds of people engaged today in German...