Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...thing to make recognized per se. This is especially true in so conservative a business as our national government, where we can point to few men of tender years holding positions of responsibility. We have not had too many William Pitts or Lord John Russells. An exception to this rule, however, is our Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04, who will speak on the Navy in the New Lecture Hall at five o'clock this afternoon. He is a young man and knows how to talk to younger men. He is one of the progressive influences...
...officers and enlisted men of the naval militia, naval reserve" etc., are in the naval service of the United States. See note 3 to Rule XII at Page 40, Selective Service Regulations...
...grave omission in making no mention of the Jewish people. In our opinion the two words, Jew and Jerusalem, are closely associated. We are well aware of the promise of the British Empire. But ahead of both these comes the fact that Jerusalem has been wrested from Turkish rule and German domination. This was the fact that was uppermost in our minds when the news came that Jerusalem had fallen. At present we are thinking more of how to defeat Germany than anything else. The capture of this city was a spark of encouragement that we were making progress...
...Alan Seeger, our soldier-poet, who met death in July, 1916, fighting for the high cause to which now all America is consecrated," the calendar contains a page for each week, and on each page a bit of war verse. Wisely governed by the rule that a poem should be given completely or not at all, the editor has collected the best of the shorter poems dealing with the war. Most of these are the work of American authors, but France, Belgium and England have each at least one representative. To name all the authors would be unprofitable...
Hitherto the Devens team has been composed entirely of privates. This rule, which excluded many good players in the Officers' Reserve Corps and severely handicapped the team, has finally been suspended by the camp authorities...