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...lectures of special interest to the general public and to teachers of history in schools will be given by members of the Department of History and by the visiting French officers. These lectures will be entitled "Historical Aspects of the Present War," and for the convenience of the largest possible public they will be given late in the afternoon in the New Lecture Hall. Professor Haskins will have the opening lecture on "The War and the Teacher"; Professor A. C. Coolidge will give ten lectures on "The Historical Antecedents of the War"; Colonel Azan and other officers will describe phases...
...members of the class have left college. The unit which attracted the most attention was Unit No. 1 of the Aero Coast Patrol, which has been under intensive training at Palm Beach, Florida. It was the first unit to leave college. Of the officers' training camps, Plattsburg drew the largest number, while only three of the camps are not included in the list. Representatives of the class are enrolled in 36 different units...
...Nation has been prospering largely in a financial sense through this war, and perhaps the farmers, as a class, have prospered more than anybody, but many manufacturers also have prospered. In consequence, we have the largest pile of gold that the world ever saw, according to the statisticians, it being $3,600,000,000. A great deal of gold or gold paper is in the pockets of people all over the country and doing no good. The large banks, corporations, and capitalists are buying these bonds in large blocks, but, inasmuch as this is a democracy, every man having...
...interview with a CRIMSON reporter recently, S. Husband, exchange professor from the University of Santiago, Chile, contrasted the system of education in his country with that used in the United States. The University of Santiago is the largest in South America, and is typical of all the others. What is said of it applies equally to all the South American universities...
...first of these two considerations applies particularly to the largest of the South American republics, namely, Brazil. For almost a generation Brazil has been actively concerned, because of her extensive coast-line and river system, with the problem of building up water transportation facilities. This policy has involved such steps as the expenditure of liberal subsidies, the enforcement of protective legislation with reference to coast-wise traffic, and the general encouragement of national shipping. Until the beginning of the present war, the Brazilian merchant marine did not figure conspicuously in foreign trade. But with the disordered shipping conditions that arose...