Word: monitors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Every U. S. schoolboy knows about the fight in Hampton Roads between the Monitor and the Merrimac, and about the naval battle in Mobile Bay, when Farragut said, "Damn the torpedoes! Jouett, full speed! Four bells, Captain Drayton!" But many a schoolboy's parents may have forgotten how one man played a principal role in both duels, was wounded in both. He was Franklin Buchanan, Admiral, Confederate States Navy...
...shall not complain that I do not take you close enough. Go to your guns!" Down went the U. S. S. Cumberland; the Congress went up in flames. Sailor Buchanan, wounded in the thigh, was promoted to Admiral. Soon after the Virginia's drawn battle with the Monitor, Norfolk was abandoned, the Virginia scuttled...
...general merits of the question, there are a few things to be said for the dry side which must appeal to everyone who really wants to reach a sane conclusion. Unfortunately there are no Boston dailies except the Christian Science Monitor which will either tell the truth themselves or permit the truth to be told in their columns on this question. Harvard students at least ought to want to know the truth. Here are a few facts...
Harvard's $11,000,000 experiment in small-unit education, to be inaugurated next fall with 522 students in the new Dunster and Lowell houses, is holding the attention of those who think about educational progress. The New York Times and the Christian Science Monitor have already viewed the project favorably: they see desirability in splitting the huge masses of students at our great universities into more wiedly groups, at the same time retaining the skilled instruction and superior facilities of a large institution...
...important blocks to the carrying out of liquor prevention enforcement is the attitude of the press. If the majority of the newspapers should tell the truth, the attitude of a great proportion of the people would be greatly changed. If more sheets such as the Christian Science Monitor and a few others should stick to facts, this problem could be far more successfully attacked...