Word: readings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...real aim: 100 per cent. American rights, 100 per cent, business profits! There has been only one constructive suggestion: 100 per cent. Republican protective tariff, a measure avowedly intended to keep up high prices and restrict the one thing which would do everybody the most good, foreign trade. Read the recent full page advertisements in the New York papers and see what th real issue is that the men behind Hughes are willing to pay hard money for; you will find nothing but a plain, unvarnished appeal to the provincial American's pocket-book. High tariff! Business profits...
Henry Sydnor Harrison's account of the work at Dunkirk and Ypres is perhaps the most finished piece in the book, while the telling of the death of Richard Hall by Waldo Pierce and of the speech by the "medicin chef" is moving and beautiful. It is impossible to read it without knowing intuitively the supreme worth of the service of all these...
...conditions. Men of Cambridge, we are interested in your local affairs. We are in business here, in the business of training ourselves to take a more responsible part in the life of the country. Our interest in Harvard University extends to its environment. What are our qualifications? We can read and write the English language with reasonable facility; we are somewhat familiar with the Constitution and political system of the United States and of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; we have been brought up amidst New England traditions which are apparently better preserved and more revered in the West than...
President Eliot, in an article in the October Atlantic Monthly, entitled "The Achievements of the Democratic Party" gives a list of the things that President Wilson has accomplished. The article ought to be read by those who wish to form an enlightened opinion upon the questions involved in the campaign...
...anthem was sung by the choir and Professor Moore read the names of the 19 graduates who have been killed. About 200 members of the University attended the service...