Word: offering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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College men and colleges themselves are anticipating any call that the nation may make upon them, and the institutions of the East, West, North and South are preparing themselves. If the Government wants sites for training camps, campuses are at its disposal. A dozen or more technical schools have offered the unrestricted use of their scientific laboratories for experiments; farming experts stand prepared to teach the people to live more cheaply and to conserve the nation's resources; forty state colleges which have for years had military training as a dominant feature of their curricula, will furnish officers to instruct...
...Tariff Commission appointments offer illuminating evidence of the spirit that might be expected to govern President Wilson's administrative appointments if he were free to ignore or defy considerations of partisan expediency. .... The chairman, Professor Taussig is one of the most distinguished tariff authorities in the world, and is far and away the most eminent tariff authority in the United States. Seekers after exorbitant tariff favors will revile Professor Taussig as a theorist. He is a theorist who will very clearly see through the greedy devices by which greedy interests have hitherto sought to delude Congress. He is also...
...recommended that specialists shall offer their services through their own Schools and Departments. The University Committee on Military Affairs is in correspondence with a central Committee at Washington and will, so far as possible, refer applications from this Committee to the Departments concerned...
...part of the preparedness program at Yale University, the Sheffield Scientific School has voted to offer, in event of hostilities, the complete apparatus of the school as well as the laboratories for such uses as the Government might desire. In an interview in the Yale News, Dean Jones said that if war came he would like to see the university grounds turned into a training camp, the "Commons" dining hall used as a mess room, the dormitories as barracks, and the athletic fields as parade grounds...
...mind the best thing the undergraduates at Harvard can do is to form a corps and offer themselves to the Government, but it is highly improbable that any fighters from this country will go across the water for a while. A United States expeditionary force will need a certain amount of medical men and it will be the experienced men who will be desired the most. The Harvard men who have been over there do not feel as if they are able to give up their home practice unless a force goes over, but if one does sail these doctors...