Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Professor Robert Matteson Johnston, of the Department of Modern History, will speak on "The International Situation of the United States" in Smith Halls Common Room this evening at 7.15 o'clock. This meeting, which is given under the auspices of the Freshman Debating Society, is open to all members of the Class...
...less true now than it was a hundred years ago that our first line of defence is the Navy. It is more true. The elaboration of modern war has made the machine the essential element of defence. A battleship is the most stupendous kind of a war machine. The contest between England, the greatest sea-power, and Germany, the greatest land-power, has proved to the world that a navy which may command the seas avails more than millions of men fighting in the trenches, or hundreds of millions of treasure...
...this time, as at few others, when many of his auditors may experience the struggle which the captain tells of, his lecture must take on a peculiar significance. The conditions he has undergone will not be duplicated for us. But the terrible proficiency of modern national internecine warfare makes many truths that are applicable to Belgium applicable also to New England or California...
...timely interest at the present time when the war in Europe is developing daily any number of laboratory cases for students to discuss in connection with the principles learned in Government 4b. The second half-year is entirely devoted to the consideration of the laws and rules of modern warfare...
...Frederick Schoenemann, of the Department of German, will deliver the second of his series of public lectures on "Modern German Literature" in Gamma Delta Hall, 688 Boylston street, Boston, this evening at 8.15 o'clock. His subject will be "Theodor Fontane and seine wachsende Bedeutung...