Word: packets
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Cross is preparing to take its full share in the plans to give every American soldier in camp or on active service a cheering Christmas. A Red Cross Christmas packet, containing presents will be sent to every man. This package will be made by the women, and children of the chapters, including the members of the Junior Red Cross. The Naval Auxiliaries of the Red Cross will perform a like service for men in the Navy...
George Herbert Crocker, Jr., '17, of Fitchburg, who was injured when the British steam packet "Sussex" was torpedoed in the Channel in March, has arrived safely at his home. He is still lame from his knee injury, but otherwise he has fully recovered...
...first of the sheets of proof, which are unbound and at Widener are kept in a packet, he wrote, "Adelaide Boodle, these sheets with the kindest remembrances from Robert Louis Stevenson." Much is in the proofs that does not appear in the published volume. Ten lines of one poem were later dropped bodily for some personal reason of the author. There are two corrections of typographical errors and a number of mis-spelled words that had to be rectified...
...large picture of Turner's middle period, representing a wide expanse of sea with a flat bottom boat ferrying passengers to a packet with sails spread. These two boats form a large mass in the centre of the picture, while, on the left, a buoy floating on the crest of the wave and a group of small boats in the middle distance are balanced by a single sailboat and the pier and city of Calais, seen in the extreme distance at the right. The near point of view chosen by the artist permits of every detail in the two boats...
Dissertations must be printed or typewritten, and their pages must be bound in book form. Unsuccessful dissertations may be obtained, with the sealed packet unopened, if called for within one year after they have been received...