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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...task becomes well nigh impossible where narrow men lies in wait to pull down others who are serving, because these others who are serving, because theses others hold different views. The men managing the various branches of the War Department must be the best obtainable. The Senate Committee will look to see if the men at he helm now are the best. If they are not, they shall be replaced; not because the spoils system has been revived in war time, but because the nation demands such a course of the action...
...sort of dream to wonder what would happen if great men of former times came back to look on the present. We have been told what Abraham Lincoln would have thought of the war; we have heard what opinion Louis XIV would have held of the initiative and referendum; it has even been suggested how Isaiah would have received Billy Sunday. Strangely, however, no one has ever informed us of Phillips Brooks' words, should he enter Phillips Brooks House. For the Bishop was an inveterate smoker. He purchased a brand of long, black cigars, which were not labeled Colorado Claro...
...look forward to the day when this war shall have been fought to a victorious end, and when you and I and my other friends can have a reunion here in France. Please give them all my kindest regards. Your sincere friend, JAMES A. SHANNON, Major...
...Supreme Court, however, has had to take into account other interests than these. It has been obliged to look to the actual will and intent of the benefactor whose gift first brought into existence the other, the educational question. Upon such inspection, and in the interest of the integrity of all testaments, it has declared that the present educational agreement is not a satisfaction of the McKay will. Once more the obligation to decide on a wise educational use of the fund is thrown back upon Harvard. Boston Transcript...
...Princeton and Dartmouth, and with them all the other colleges of this country, should not be unmindful of the grim legacy which a year or two of this war will bring to them just as it has to their sister institutions on the Isis and the Cam. They should look ahead, for this is the time when foresight counts with both men and nations. Let us have less attention to what the war has already cost our colleges and give more to what they can do, to meet the new problems which the war is bound to bring into their...