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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...value of $89,946.50 from James Byrne '77, of New York City, to establish the "Byrne Professorship of Administrative Law." The securities are the first payment towards a total foundation of $150,000, which was given originally when the Law School started last spring its campaign to obtain a million dollars. The securities in the meantime have been transferred to the University Endowment Fund...
...increased membership drive in the University has been a part of the nation-wide campaign to enroll ten million new members before Christmas Eve. Reports from Washington as to the outcome of the attempt are very favorable, indicating that mobilized Red Cross workers are obtaining heavy enrollments in every section of the country. New England's quota, however, of one million new members is being reached very slowly...
...Cross. The committee in charge of the canvassing of the University, headed by R. E. Gross '19, will continue their work until tomorrow night at which time it is hoped that considerably more than 1000 memberships will have been secured from the College and the Graduate Schools. One million members from New England, outside of Connecticut is the quota that is asked by the national organization...
...women and children he is fighting for are solidly, aggressively back of him; that the morale of the folks at home is as high as the morale of the fighter in the field; and that their purpose is as patriotic and their determination as deep as his. Ten million new members of the American Red Cross will not leave a doubting United States fighting man--nor a doubting enemy...
...first two years of the present European struggle. "If the United States had had three brigades of regulars in 1861 they could have occupied Richmond, New Orleans and Charleston, and stopped the war there. If, in 1915, the United States had had a regular force of half a million, and fairly efficient reserve of twice that number, it is my belief," said Professor Johnston, "That the Lusitania would never have been sunk...