Word: notes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...writing and reading rooms, but it is also the best and most convenient place for students to meet and receive their families or friends. Those who camped at Barre in 1917 as well as those who were quartered in Smith Hall barracks last summer remember the generous distribution of note paper, and the helpful services of Mr. Beane. As Phillips Brooks House has already had much experience both in managing a hut for the Naval Radio School, and in furnishing recreation and rest for the R. O. T. C. camps, it stands ready--to assist members of the new units...
...believe I wrote you a little note some two weeks ago--promising to write more fully almost immediately--if not sooner--and there I've allowed all this time to slip by with never a word. But--when you get this--you will allow your mind to slip back through all the weeks that will have elapsed since my last hurried little note, and recall some of the things that were heralded in the papers of the 15th to 22nd of July you will perhaps see why I did not keep my promise more punctiliously--for you will recall that...
...second in importance only to the question of the equipment and training of our fighting men. The entire shipping problem comes under the head of labor. How best to get the maximum work from the laboring classes is the problem that we must solve and it is interesting to note that the anti-conscription team upheld their side. We congratulate the 1921, speakers on their victory, but it does seem as though a labor conscription policy would bring the most efficient results in spite of the opposition that the powerful Labor Party would be bound to make. Conscription is always...
...probably now to be drafted on reaching twenty-one, the Government will be taking time by the forelock. We hope, however, that the plan will stop there and not be carried into the high and grammar schools. In this connection it is interesting to note that the British Government, despite the strain upon it, has definitely and finally refused to allow military training in its schools. Replying to a deputation of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, the President of the Board of Education declared that he was with them in their position, and had "no intention of allowing anything...
...officers. If your country has need of you, it is primarily as future officers. The war is not going to be over in a few weeks; there will be, as you know, a terrible loss of officers. Look at the British casualty lists for the last few weeks, and note the proportion of officers killed and wounded. It is by preparing yourselves as fully as possible to fulfil that function eventually that you will show the most intelligent realization of your duty. If you go and drive an ambulance in Italy or a motor-truck in France, or clean...