Word: land
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...means the training of a large body of men who have neither desire nor prospect of taking part in actual warfare, but who are known throughout the world as potential forces on land and sea. It means especially potential officers. This may be the particular point at which the college man comes in. But let me point out another side of the case, less often dwelt on. It is true that the country needs the military power of its college men, and has a peculiar claim upon them. It is also true that the college man needs the military training...
...elementary habits of the soldier a firm footing. But for those who are already in college, the practical consideration is to find or make some place in your plans for this important part of education. And with all sorrow for the tragedy which has raised the issue in this land, we can still thank God that we live in a time when citizenship is taking on a more serious and concrets meaning than it has yet borne
...Kelley, "We must get away from the fatalistic attitude towards socialism and begin on the transitory methods which will lead us onward to the proper goal. The cry that there are practical barriers to all socialistic propositions must be buried. University and socialist literature must be published throughout the land; such news as the University of Wisconsin in several of its departments has recently undertaken. The public school system and the slight democraticism of one branch of the national government, the senate, are steps towards socialism...
...addition to these exhibits, which are largely pictorial, an important collection of maps and charts relating to Cambridge has been assembled, including charts illustrating the distribution of population by races and density, of parks and playgrounds, tenement houses, land values, industries, etc., prepared by the Cambridge City planning commission and other public bodies. The museum is on the second floor of Emerson Hall, and is open to the public...
...University, that she may welcome back in the days of peace those who left her so readily at the call of duty, and keep ever fresh in the days to come the names of her noble sons whose lives have been self-dedicated to the service of their native land...