Word: showings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Society has turned over the sum of $1,000 to the Boston Chapter of the American Red Cross. This amount represents the entire proceeds from the five performances of this year's show, "A Medley of Heirs," held the last week in March. Collections were taken at each of the performances and the money thus contributed was also included in the fund...
...students to a teacher. In 1915-16 there were 61. Owing to increase of students, even with the higher standards set, there are today 72 students to each teacher, while in the College the ratio is 18 to one and in the Medical School five to one. These figures show the need of a large endowment to provide more teachers. That the officers of the school should carry burdens sufficient, as in Dean Thayer's case, to cause a complete breakdown, should not be expected, by the profession and by the alumni. for whose benefit the school exists...
Since there will be a shortage of men in this department of the army, it is extremely likely that members of the new corps who show special aptitude to the work will receive a noncommissioned rating soon after the corps goes into camp. In the regular Signal Corps there are three officers to five privates...
...undergraduates and from other members of the Harvard Regiment. It is this for which I appeal. Enrolment must be speedy and complete. Every man must do his bit and his best to keep the Regi- ment "in the pink of condition" and at the height of efficiency. Let us show the country, each one, of us by his own individual effort, that we mean to put this thing through. Let us show the Government that we can equal, if not beat, them at their own game. Let us show the alumni and the University that we appreciate what they have...
...Armenians were hostile to the Russians and determined to show the Turks that they were good soldiers. They hurled the Russians back into Russia and gave the Turks a chance to murder a great number of Russian women and children. The Armenians complained of this and as a result were disarmed and made the slaves of the Turkish soldiers. Many escaped and the Turks on finding it somewhat difficult to persuade those friends with whom they had taken refuge to give them up to be shot as deserters, a general massacre was ordered. The "Butcher Regiment," made up of former...