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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...director of the University Forest, has been appointed manager of food production and conservatism in the town of Petersham, where the Forest is located. All the forestry work has been dropped and the laborers have been taken from the lumbering and will at once begin plowing all the tillable land that is owned in Petersham by the 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...
...important," said Mr. Willard, "to mobilize the industrial, agricultural, transportation and labor resources of the country as well as the military and naval forces. Our Allies must be kept supplied with food, munitions and all the materials essential to our common success. To accomplish this, serious transportation problems by land and water must be solved. One of the most serious problems confronting us is the threatened shortage of foodstuffs. Owing to the failure of the winter wheat crop, one-third of which is ruined, we probably will not even be able to raise the six and one-half bushels...
...Lippitt in his article treats us to one of those mathematical demonstrations of our country's state of "despicable weakness" by land and sea, with which we became so well acquainted during the preparedness agitation of last year. We look from force of habit for a description of the bombardment of New York and details of the atrocities of spike-helmeted invaders. However, the article shows us the impossibility of ever reaching an end of an armament race when no nation is content to rank less than first or a close second. We can only hope that when the present...
...Harvard's heroes who has fallen in the present war, in the form of an international scholarship is by far the most satisfactory solution of the problem of how best to perpetuate the name and fame of those who have made the supreme sacrifice for a foreign land. The Victor Emmanuel Chapman Memorial Fellowship is a fitting testimonial to the unselfish generosity which inspired him who gave all that he had to help in the service of France. Monuments of bronze or stone are at best only transient. But through such a memorial as this the name of one among...
...militia of the various states is to be drafted into Federal service, and an additional 1,000,000 men are to be raised by selective drafting. Telegraphic orders for the mobilization of 15,000 members of the Naval Militia and the Naval Reserve will be flashed throughout the land immediately upon the signing of the war resolution by President Wilson. Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo has asked that Congress appropriate immediately $3,502,- 517,000 to finance the war for one year. A bond issue to be absorbed by the Federal Reserve Banks, and increased taxation on estates, incomes, whisky...