Word: helping
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...German arms received the lethal blow when the United States declared war. They cannot now help but fail. It has been a boast of the Hohenzollerns that each ruler added some bit to the Prussian land. The last of the Hohenzollerns will live to see that long and cruelly-wrested land snatched from him again. Will he remember Dixmonde when he hears the troops of the five great Powers crossing the Rhine? Will his heart bleed for Louvain afresh when the allies of democracy march through the plains of Prussia...
...commandant has authority to enroll anybody who would be useful on the war slate in this naval district. It embraces patrol boats, civil engineers, etc., anybody, in fact, whose services the commandant would need in various parts of the district. The main object of this class is to help secure a sufficient number of patrol boats properly manned and equipped...
...produces in brave men an eagerness to be of immediate service. This is natural; it is good; but there is something better. The soldier's task requires patience in matters of which he cannot see the direct utility. Most undergraduates want to help the country in the coming conflict; but the Government itself has not yet formed in detail its plans for raising an army, or at least has not made them public, and the student is still more in the dark about the opportunities that will be open to him. Until he knows more he will do well...
...Harvard athletes have formed a coast defence unit." Well done, sirs! We can't help believing that the athletes of Dr. David Starr Jordan's university in San Mateo, Cal., will do as well, the doctor's thunders of opposition drowned in the Stanford yell. --New York...
...Thomas Nixon Carver, of the Economics Department in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday said that to make possible the enlistment of men in Government service, the United States must cut down on luxuries, and probably resort to female employment when possible. He also said that our greatest help to the Allies in the food problem would be to raise wheat which is their greatest need at present...