Word: mentionable
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There have been three matters before the Convention affecting the University and the other institutions of higher education in the State. It was proposed to broaden that chapter, incorporated 137 years ago in the original organic law of Massachusetts, which singles out the University for special mention and commends it to the favor of future generations, to include all the colleges of the Commonwealth. This amendment which was drafted with the aid of officials of the University, was rejected for reasons not connected with the University, thus leaving the status of the latter unchanged...
...have the assurance that man may not live by bread alone; and on diverse occasions men have resorted to the food of the barns and fowl. Not to mention the immortal Nebuchadnezzar, late of Babylon-on-the-Euphrates, at the pinch of fashion or necessity even civilized man has been forced to follow the example of his less epicurean brother, and subsist on other than the staff of life...
...citations mention gallant work performed by the men named in picking up and saving wounded men around Monastir under the heaviest of shelling. Hill's work at Hartmanswella-Kopf and Verdun also is mentioned...
...exceedingly pleased to see the editorial in this morning's CRIMSON coming out squarely in support of national prohibition during the war. It was with some regret, however, that I observed that the writer saw fit to mention only one of the three great reasons for the enactment of such a measure, namely, the great saving of foodstuffs which would be brought about...
...duty of the signal corps to collect military information, and in the present war, the recording of the pictorial history of war is a function of this corps. An English officer, writing to the London Times, states: 'I am very much surprised to see in the press so little mention of the splendid work of the signal companies. They are called 'the main lines of communication' and over their lines day and night pass a continuous flood of traffic for the hospital bases, ordnance remount, and in fact, every move made in this terrible war is transmitted over their lines...