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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...beginning of the end for 1914 is tonight. When a class barbecues or country fairs or junkets, there is no hope. It is on the downward corkscrew path to the cold world. What do you mean--junket? It is vaguely nutritive, indefinably edible in sound. Possibly one eats or drinks junk; possibly, one just buys it. Who knows? Junket and be merry, oh Seniors, for tomorrow you may graduate...
...personnel of the teams will be allowed at the beginning of the round robin series: but they must be submitted to the managers of the series for approval. After the commencement of the round robin, no changes will be allowed. Failure to comply with this rule will mean the forfeit of a game for each change...
...people of the country do not want Mexico, which would mean years of guerilla fighting and worry. Neither do they want war. In the present imperfect state of civilization, however, war is at times a necessity; the progress of universal peace has been and will be infinitely slow. And when the United States is responsible not only for its own interests, but, through the Monroe Doctrine, for the interests of other nations among a people, disorganized and semi-barbarous, as the Mexicans, war may become inevitable. The Administration can afford a certain amount of ridicule from foreign state departments...
...radical change has been made in the work of the Harvard Forestry School at Petersham which will take effect next fall. This change will mean the practical abandonment of the course in lumbering at the Forestry School, and in its stead a new course in lumbering will be conducted under the Graduate School of Business Administration. From investigation carried on by the Petersham School it was found that there are approximately 85 forestry schools in the country, all of which give instruction that is practically the same. The lack of instruction in lumbering, the efficiency side of forestry, is openly...
...book, "Psychology and Industrial Efficiency," which he published in English last spring, has in the mean time been translated into German, French, Spanish, Swedish, Russian, and Japanese...