Word: months
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...better example of the old adage "it never rains but it pours" could be found than the history of the war during the last month. Now, as a climax to this series of defeats and discouragement's, comes the news of the triumph of the Maximalists and the Bolsheviki, the capture of the Winter Palace, and the flight of Kerensky. This is one of the few single events of the war that seems irretrievable, that offers no ray of hope or consolation. Even should Kerensky succeed in rallying the Army to his support and reestablishing a new government in Moscow...
...idea proposed by Major Lane of the first battalion is one worthy of consideration for the other battalion commanders. Major Lane suggests to change at the end of a month captains, top and supply sergeants, as well as all other non-coms. There is no doubt that in this new method of organizing the R. O. T. C. Major Lane has the whole-hearted support of the members of our regiment...
...asked to make it a day of fasting rather than a day of feasting. With many of us this will be making a virtue of necessity; but few thoughtful people will feel disposed to make the day one of hilarity. This is a grim and gray time, like the month in which Thanksgiving Day occurs. The constant sense of the country being at war is a drain on the Nation's spiritual forces, and such an anniversary is a time to renew those forces from which a people's moral strength is drawn. --Boston Globe...
Though with the close of its successful campaign, the work of the committee is now officially over, it is hoped that there will still continue to be a large number of subscriptions before the close of the bond sale at the end of the month. Harvard will give its money...
...cent. on December 15, 1917; 40 per cent. on January 15, 1918, with accrued interest on deferred installments. A third method of payment has been arranged with the local Cambridge banks: two per cent. on application, and, in the case of a $50 bond, $7 per month for 7 months, or in the case of a larger bond, a proportionate increase in the amount payable each month. A plan has also been formulated by which a group of men who cannot individually buy a bond may subscribe to one together...