Word: nears
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...establishment of the camp in Lancaster are already in progress. A detail is to be sent to the site within the next few days to compile detailed maps of the surrounding country for use in maneuvers, and advance preparations on the camp site itself will start in the near future. The actual work of construction is to be in the hands of the headquarters company...
...Shaw of Cambridge was killed in a motor accident near Paris. He sailed for France as a Y. M. C. A. worker last March. After his graduation he studied at the Law School and later practised...
...summer camp which is going to open near Camp Devens," he continued, "where they can profit by many of the advantages of the National Army Camp, and where I expect to work with Lieutenant Morize, will permit them to perfect still more their practical instruction, and to put to use all the theoretical training that they have received during the winter. Like their comrades of last year, they have enthusiasm, good will, and the spirit of discipline...
...great many people Major Henry Lee Higginson's retirement as the patron of the Boston Symphony Orchestra will seem to be something very near a tragedy. It will seem so not merely because this public-spirited American, a veteran of the Civil War, a discriminating lover of music, and a wise user of wealth, ceases to be the chief supporter of the great orchestra he founded 37 years ago, but because his retirement comes at a time when he has been associated with the defence of the orchestra's conductor, Karl Muck, who has been arrested and interned...
...whole question of athletics next year is one of interest to the undergraduates and one which will have to be settled sometime in the near future. The resumption of Varsity football in the fall particularly interests us. Will there be room for it with the military course disrupting to a very large extent the ordinary trend of undergraduate life? The answer to this lies in the hands of those on whose shoulders rests the responsibility of determining military work, for it it obviously out of the question even to consider football if the men who take the military training will...