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Nothing quite like the Halifax disaster has ever occurred. Plenty of munition depots and munition ships as large as the Mont Blanc have doubtless been blown up in this war, and scores of costly collisions between vessels have occurred. But never has an explosion on board ship had the disastrous effect of this one. It is supposed that the Mont Blanc carried a huge amount of the new explosive, trinitrotuluol, T.N.T., a glistening pale-yellow powder, as potent as nitroglycerine, though safer to handle. Moreover, the situation of the ship in the half-mile-wide Narrows, between two rising shores...
...private property. In size and sort, the residential area destroyed would almost correspond to East Boston. And beyond the area of practical destruction enormous damage has been caused by the peculiar vicious swiftness of the explosion. Thirteen hundred persons have been killed and a great many more wounded. Nothing like the amount of blinding has ever been observed in a disaster of this sort...
They have given their students generously and they shall continue to do this in the future. The main consideration must be how the colleges can best serve the nation. Some such scheme of organization as Professor Johnston proposes sounds like efficient service. The lowering of the draft age is still a thing of the future, but we may well plan our course of action...
...Technology there are something like a dozen Government schools, each established to meet a distinct need. Included in the schedule of war work are the Army and Navy aviation schools, courses for naval architects, special French courses and special training for drafted men. Military training is required of all freshmen at the Institute, and the members of the other classes have also organized a battalion...
Today the provisional list for the mid-year examination has been made public. It is a good thing that the announcement of these tests comes so long a time in advances. Like the wind that precedes the storms they serve as a warning; they give us a chance to re-inforce our intellectual foundation. The mid-years are, next to the finals, the worst event of a college year, but they are a trial that must be gone through with, So the main thing to do is to get ready. If we start now and brush up the dusty spots...