Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...take part in the third annual rally and demonstration of the Greater Boston Council of the Boy Scouts of America, to be held in the Stadium this afternoon. Beginning at 2 o'clock with a march in review, for which the Regiment Band will furnish music, the scouts will present a varied and extensive program lasting until "retreat" is sounded. Demonstrations as well as competitions, are included in the festivities...
...Loan from Yale University was announced by President Hadley at a mass meeting held at New Haven to open the campaign there. Professor William Howard Taft presided, and speeches were delivered by President Hadley, William P. Gould Harding, Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, and Secretary Wilson of the present Cabinet. The speakers did not devote all their time to explaining the nature of the loan and its terms, but laid emphasis on the patriotic spirit which must be displayed...
...mailed to every graduate within a few days. The committee hopes that the circulation of this pamphlet may to some extent take the place of the celebration in focusing the attention of the alumni on the work of great law schools and their peculiar value at periods like the present in the history of popular government. The permanent maintenance of civil liberty depends upon the ultimate control through civil institutions of the belligerent tendencies in human nature, whether of a domestic or international character, and this requires the training and scattering through the community of the most highly trained minds...
...public conveyances, such as railway trains and street cars, and in public places, such as theatres, honors and personal salutes may be omitted when palpably inappropriate or apt to disturb or annoy civilians present. (C.A.R...
Those who, by gross exaggeration, are elevating the present food situation from a serious condition to a terrible famine may justify themselves under the theory that only by frightening the people with dark fears will the people do as they should. That rule is supposed to work well in the nursery, to guide children in the path of duty. But no prophecies that "the famine'll get you if you don't watch out" may be used to instil fortitude and determination into an intelligent nation. If we as a people need such methods of comprehending the necessary, then...