Word: parted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...meeting unanimously, and the recommendation will be carried to the meeting of the National Collegiate Association to be held in Washington, D. C., in August. The resumption of intercollegiate athletics under present conditions, however, would at the best be difficult and revolutionary. By far the greater part of the men who have composed the athletic teams of the larger universities have entered some form of military service, and the teams which would represent these universities would necessarily be composed of much less suitable material. It would be necessary to take certain steps in regard to eligibility rules...
...committee of 18 prominent graduates of the University a campaign has been launched to raise the $100,000 which it has been estimated will be required to equip and maintain the University R. O. T. C. at a grade equal to a Federal camp. Although a considerable part of this amount has already been contributed by generous alumni, money is still needed. In the circular letter which has been sent to the graduates of the University the following paragraph briefly sets forth the situation...
...need has not been met. Have our graduates done their part in the shaping of opinion? The College which nurtured them expects them, not in bigotry, not in panic, but judiciously and unemotionally, to see to it that our strength is conserved; to see to it that this thing is done...
...graduates of the University have signed up for the two Harvard ambulance units that the Intercollegiate Intelligence Bureau has asked the University to recruit. These units, when they are recruited to the full strength of 36 men each, will probably be sent abroad immediately. The contingent is to become part of the Medical Enlisted Men's Reserve Corps, and will be among the first of the United States Army corps to reach France. The ambulance units will also give substantial assistance to the French ambulance service, and will, furthermore, serve as Harvard units through the duration of the war. Some...
...later. (That this second point is not a matter of closet theory is abundantly shown by J. E. Pope, in an article in the Harvard Quarterly Journal of Economics of August, 1916). The speculator has failed to do it during the current crop year, for reasons above indicated, in part: (3) The speculator is a risk-bearer. Millers and grain buyers in the country "hedge" by short sales on the exchanges when they buy to grind or to ship. If the wheat the miller buys to grind goes down, and with it the price of flour, his loss is offset...