Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...editorials and a book-review close the number. The editorial on Russian relief work is particularly timely and valuable. The reviewer of "Christine" is, we think, quite right in assuming the letters therein to be fictitious. He does not mention the interesting theory that Owen Wister is the real author. Yet there are obvious similarities between "Christine" and "The Pentecost of Calamity" in point of style and method...
Most of our undergraduates expected that Ayer would be their destination, and the Sunny South of New York State comes as a relief. In spite of all that has been said, Yaphank is not a bad spot to spend the winter. Undoubtedly it is less frigid than Ayer; in fact the center of Long Island is supposedly ten degrees warmer than New York City itself. The coating of snow and ice will keep the terrible dust down; the monotany of swamp-oak will be broken by this time by the newly-laid out drill grounds and cantonments...
...College and its graduates. The entire work is being done for the Alumni Association. Gain Total United States Army 301 1997 Harvard R. O. T. C. and other military bodies 70 917 Foreign Armies 9 122 United States Navy 60 713 Medical Service 71 591 Red Cross and other relief work 36 229 Ambulance Service 59 420 National, state, and other committee work 55 498 Miscellaneous...
Tomorrow evening Dr. Van Dyke will address the Graduate School Society and the Law School Society at Phillips Brooks House. His experience in connection with Belgian Relief and other public callings while in Holland has given him an opportunity to study at first hand the problems the world is facing today. His subject will be "The United States and the World War." The meeting will be at 8 o'clock...
targets. An elaborate course in bayonet work was also inaugurated as the officers had received little or no instruction in the manual now in general use on the Western Front. A system of trenches patterned after those at Fresh Pond was outlined and trench duties including the mechanism of relief's were explained fully. Much time was present, too, in the organization of French platoons and in drilling them in the various formations used in the regimental exercises at Barre...