Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...German offensive is now raging are not only pitted with the shell-holes and lined with the trenches of the great Somme battle of 1916, but are underlaid with the relics of a score of other conflicts fought for their possession. Julius Caesar led his legions across the the present battlefield in B.C. 57, while in pursuit of the Nervii. The Franks wrested the region from the Romans and the Northmen in turn from the Franks, sacking St. Quentin in 883 A.D. Picardy was devastated in the Hundred Years' War between France and England, and the armies of the Emperor...
With rumors afloat concerning suppressed writings having to do with our present system of education at Harvard, the proper time seems to have come for an expression of opinion on this subject from the students themselves. It is for the purpose of eliciting some such expression of intelligent opinion that I have written this article...
...Government pays for its wants has been a brake on individual production. Large classes of labor and groups of manufacturers have become impressed with the notion that they are indispensable. High wages have made it appear to many workers that they are fulfilling a patriotic duty by merely being present on the job. High prices for ships, military equipment and munitions have convinced some manufacturers that their obligation is fulfilled by the mere fact that they are in the business. The incentive of competition for customers or employment being removed, producers of the manifold war requirements are spending too much...
...report on the efficiency shown by the troops in the execution of various drills, exercises and ceremonies. The event, therefore, will be far more important and interesting than a regulation battalion inspection, and it is expected that all the members of the Second and Third Battalions will be present at Soldiers Field to watch the progress of the ceremony...
...program. In the afternoon there will be entertainments in the Common Rooms and the students will have private spreads in their own rooms. In the evening a buffet supper will be served in the quadrangle of Smith Halls. Intramural singing contests will follow, and President Lowell will present the silver loving cup now held by Smith Halls to the winning dormitory...