Word: periods
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...idea of making strikes illegal has been growing throughout the country during the present period of social unrest. Mr. Cummings in his railroad plan recommends its application to the railroad system, legislation now in progress in Massachusetts favors its enforcement in regard to the running of trolley lines; the injuction against the coal strike leaders is a significant sign of the Federal government's attitude...
...Churchill and G. Owen have returned to the line-up, but their return is more than offset by the squad's recent losses. P. B. Kunhardt and L. De Jonge, both of whom received thigh injuries last Saturday, are out of the game for an indefinite period. V. Chapin and R. Martin, who were hurt earlier in the season, are also still on the sidelines...
...form of universal military training. In the present times of internal turmoil and disorder the advantages of such a policy are brought home to us with unusual force. What more effective way is there to inculcate in alien citizens the responsibilities of American citizenship than by giving them a period of service in a democratic army? General Pershing, appearing before the Joint Military Committee of Congress, said "Universal training is in a sense a school for citizenship. . . the necessity of this is evidenced by the fact that over thirty-two per cent of the drafted men were illiterate...
...further pointed out in this report that, in spite of the fact that this department suffered from the war the same as the other departments of the University, it was nevertheless very active and progressive during this period. This is shown particularly in the recent movement to better the conditions of co-operation with affiliated schools which have been developed here in Cambridge within the last few years, and was also exemplified by the interdenominational meeting held in Cambridge in the summer...
...Union. There Harvard men can listen to intimate anecdotes of Harvard's most illustrious graduate from the lips of his associate and biographer, Mr. Thayer. This meeting will bring home the need of the nation today for the man who had the courage to say during a period of a threatened coal strike: "We will mine coal if the whole army...