Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...present the 150 men in the Cadet School are occupying Holyoke House and part of Harvard and Dane Halls. If more are admitted to the course of training more buildings are needed...
...been a tendency to bring this about in some Eastern cities, yet no such widespread decision was made. Now we hear from the West that a whole state has determined to substitute the study of French and Spanish for that of German. For no other reason than our present state of war, the school board of North Dakota has decided to keep people from learning the language of our enemy...
...economic systems, but its politics, on free white labor. All Asiatic and all semi-servile workers have been excluded. There is no foreign or mobile labor. Every worker is a politician, and every politician has at least sprung from the workers. The maintenance of the Commonwealth on its present basis depends on the presence of an industrial body of workingmen in Australia itself. The Labor party, in short, cannot spare any more political units to fight the war--or thinks it cannot. It is a case of Australia first--with the Labor party first in Australia. --Boston Transcript...
...third need of the present day, according to Mr. Eddy, is a good, old-fashioned, whole-souled devotion. "Nothing can undermine the character of a nation more than emphasis on living," he concluded. "Be willing to devote your lives to the cause. Above all, don't be unmoved, don't be 'fed up' on the war. If your soul is not daily torn apart by this war, it is to your damnation...
...present administration has made innumerable calls upon the women as workers in the factories and the fields, and as conservers of the national food supply. Through the passage of the Susan B. Anthony amendment, the Government has made that call more effective. Of course the women would have rendered patriotic aid during the present crisis, regardless of the fate of their enfranchisement. They always have done their share, they always will. But by declaring itself for suffrage, the administration has removed a feeling of irritation and discontent, and has there-by rendered American women more capable and more willing...