Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Only one more day remains to make the collection a success. So far the response has not been encouraging. If we in America are to meet our social problem, to help the working people tide over the hard years ahead, we must be ready to help them. With many of their wage-earners at the front, they will find it difficult to buy clothes for next winter. One of the aims of the spring collection is to meet this need...
...engineering department has formed an aviation class, and men are being instructed in this branch of the service. The work is more on the lines of construction and planning than actual flying. It is hoped that a great many men will be turned out who are ready to help in the actual construction of machines. Men for this are badly needed, so Michigan is trying to serve in the best possible...
...separist move- ment; it was not a popular uprising. Envoys were sent to the United States to obtain aid, but they met with no encouragement. Discouraged, they went to New York. Bueno Varella, a journalist, gave them encouragement. He told them to start the revolt and they would get help from the United States, but he was merely guessing. They revolted, and United States warships were sent to preserve order. President Roosevelt, being a man who never goes around a table if he can jump over it, seized the opportunity for acquiring the Canal Zone. The Treaty...
...days of the Revolution a Frenchman came to America to help the cause of liberty. Lafayette, with his well-trained troops, did a great deal in teaching the soldiers of Washington and the great commander himself the latest methods of warfare...
...professors at the University. Provision has also been made so that, in the probable event of an increase in the principle, more than one French student may enjoy the privileges of the scholarship. In this way the Chapman Fellowship will become an additional link between the two countries and help to pay the intellectual debt the United States has long owed France. It is to be hoped that there will be more memorials such as this, which serve worthy ends as well as being evidence of noble sacrifices...