Word: parted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Colonel Rees has been in active service during the greater part of the war, and his exploits in the air have won for him the Victoria Cross, the highest honor obtainable in the British Army. He will discuss fully the tactics used in aerial warfare...
...peace proposals offered by the Central Executive Committee of the Russian Council of Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates are more suggestive than actually important. They are an attempt on the part of the representaties of the peasant and industrial classes of all Russia to make a real interpretation of the general policy of no annexations and indemnities declared when the Miliukof government was forced out last April...
...proposals themselves contain many admirable and some doubtful provisions. But whatever might be the effect of their actual adoption, they are exceedingly interesting as the sincere and earnest attempt on the part of the Russian people to solve the vexing questions which must come up sooner or later. It is for this reason that they deserve the serious consideration of the allies who would do well to make a similar trial at least in the solution of those problems which are not the less important because they are difficult or because they are seemingly subordinate to the questions...
...part played by the University in the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention now in sesion, is even more prominent than in former conventions. Of the 320 delegates chosen by the people of the State, 55, or 17 per cent of the entire body, are graduates of the University...
Among the alumni who have taken the most active part in the body, are the Hon. Robert Luce '82, formerly Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, and the Hon. Joseph Walker '90, both of whom have done much toward carrying on the work of the Convention, besides taking a large part in the debates...