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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...five games on the schedule, from members of the University, including Technology students who are candidates for a Harvard degree. Members of the Faculty may apply either in person or on the student applications, or by mail on the regular graduate applications. All students must apply in person. The money must accompany each application. Tickets assigned on student application will not be mailed but must be called for at the office of the Association during the five days preceding the day of each game...
...becomes the duty of American colleges to take up the work of advancing the world's scholarship with greater seal than ever. In the case of Harvard this calls for the strengthening of the equipment of certain departments. A substitute for Boylston Hall is needed; the Economics Department needs money to establish research fellowships; the Library needs an endowment. In spite of the great building expansion just competed, more money is needed. And it is hoped that benefactors of mankind in the largest and most international sense will respond...
...pacifists feel intensely the horrors of war, not only in our won land, but throughout the world. They regard it rightly as one of the greatest scourges of mankind--one of the darkest blots on our civilization. They have formed innumerable societies to abolish it; and large sums of money have been given to aid their work. But they give the impression of seeing the end more clearly than the means, and appear to think that war can be forever drowned out by a flood of talk, that the pen can grind the sword into a plowshare. Some pacifists speak...
...Rhodes took up his subject with the beginning of hostilities at Fort Sumter. He emphasized the great needs of the North at the time--men, munitions, money and diplomacy, especially the latter. England was against slavery, but she was also very much in need of cotton and opposed to the United States tariffs; and the problem of keeping England neutral was one of the hardest faced by the Administration. The policy of Seward, secretary of State, seemed to be to embroil the United States abroad, hoping thereby to bring about a reunion at home. Troubled by the actions...
Three other phases of the war were touched on by Mr. Rhodes. He spoke a little of the finances of the country in 1864, and of the "debauch of flat money." He also dealt on Lincoln's unfriendly relations with Chase, Secretary of the Treasury, and the latter's withdrawal and subsequent appointment as Cheif Justice of the Supreme Court. And finally he considered Lincoln's high-minded plan of 1864: of paying to the slave states four million dollars for the giving up of their slaves, and the formation of peace. But there was no one else...