Word: nears
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...active engineering work of the University R. O. T. C. was begun yesterday, when Companies C and D, under the leadership of the French officers, spent the day near Fresh Pond, engaged in the outlining and construction of trenches. The Frenchmen have laid out a system of defences which include first and second line trenches, communication trenches and boyeaux, with bombproofs and dug-outs at intervals along the line. The plans also include machine gun positions and bombing posts. Two companies each day will devote their entire time to the study of these positions and the construction of a portion...
Yesterday at ten of the morning, near Memphis, Tennessee, a mob of five thousand white men burned with fire a negro to the death. The negro had been accused of the commission of a capital crime. Under the law he deserved death according...
...race and one against thousands, put to rout these courageous Southern gentlemen. When they had bound him, the chains being hard and the steel bars strong, they tortured him; the mob, with the fiendish tortures which from time immemorial have been the pastime of savages. And when he was near to oblivion from pain, they applied the torch to the oil-soaked fagots and aroused his spirit to a terrible death in the fire. It is noted that a few urged that he be shot. They should be honored, for they were merciful...
Through the Committee on Civic and Social Work of the Harvard Club of New York City, a registry is being made of graduates and undergraduates of the University living in and near New York who are available for voluntary civil and social work of every kind in and about New York City. It is the object of the Club to provide in this way, within the field of voluntary activity, facilities analogous to those offered by the Appointments Committee within the field of paid employment. The office facilities of the Harvard Club are used as a convenient means of recording...
Concerning the work of the Corps in the near future, Captain Cordier's statement reads...