Word: land
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Since the declaration of the war, Harvard has demonstrated its splendid spirit of loyalty to the cause to which our country has devoted itself. Graduates and undergraduates have enlisted in all departments of the service on land and on sea. Now that the call has come to those who have been unable to go, to back up their fellows by means of the splendid work carried on by the War Council of the Y. M. C. A., they have proved themselves ready and have responded to the appeal of John R. Mott to give the fellows in the camps...
...last. In all matters of war relief and charity, they have shown themselves able organizers; and in the province of housekeeping and food conservation, they have proved themselves intelligent, thrifty and capable. At a time when everyone is doing his best for the common weal, the women of the land have stood out preeminently for the spirit they have shown, and the results they have accomplished. Their success, then, should be regarded not as a political victory, but as a delicate compliment to the success of their work occasioned directly or indirectly...
...under existing conditions they are rapidly approaching financial exhaustion. Not even the most cynical anti-capitalist can deny that the plight of the railroads is desperate, and that as a direct result of this the market is now in a panic condition, with consequent business demoralization throughout the land. It has been estimated that seventeen billion dollars have been invested in American carriers, and short sighted is the government which for political reasons, is going to prevent such investors from getting a reasonable return on their money. Of all enterprises, the Railroads are the only ones at the present moment...
...Chinese students of Greater Boston at the meeting of the Cosmopolitan Club in Phillips Brooks House. "It would be a very good thing if Chinese students in this country would contribute to our magazines and correct some of the wrong, but popular, impressions in regard to their native land...
Such a step would have considerable importance for Cambridge where so much land is occupied by the University and the Institute of Technology...