Word: kinds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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President Lowell stated that the University had in no sense lost or abandoned control of the fund intrusted. He further declared that the equipment of the University was not adequate for the best kind of school, and that it was very difficult to set up a school in the vicinity of another already very successful in the same line...
...evident that the paper has not yet struck the proper balance between illustrations and reading matter. Several of the writers take more space than their subject matter required, to say their bit, and there are several lapses from vigorous, pungent writing which should characterize a paper of this kind...
...comparatively slight compared to the dreadful bulk. None the less, it is necessary that he dominate the stage three-fourths of the time. He succeeds in doing this inimitably. He presents an almost perfect picture of a gentle, super-intelligent worldling, with a touch of typically Shavian spirituality, a kind of Fenelon in gaiters. It is a very fine creation...
...addition to these enrolments in the Reserve Officers' Training Unit, approximately 257 other members of the University are engaged in military or naval work of some kind. Of these 15 have secured positions in the Aviation Corps, while 85 others have signed up for aeroplane work during the summer of 1917, under the guidance of the Government. The Naval Training Cruise contingent already numbers 60 and 27 men have applied for admission to the Naval Patrol. The balance are in various organizations of the militia, particularly in Battery A of the Massachusetts National Guard...
...less true now than it was a hundred years ago that our first line of defence is the Navy. It is more true. The elaboration of modern war has made the machine the essential element of defence. A battleship is the most stupendous kind of a war machine. The contest between England, the greatest sea-power, and Germany, the greatest land-power, has proved to the world that a navy which may command the seas avails more than millions of men fighting in the trenches, or hundreds of millions of treasure...