Word: statement
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...quarter past three this morning, less than 15 minutes after the passage of the war resolution by the House, Dean Briggs, acting with the power intrusted to him on March 26 by the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports, issued the accompanying statement calling off all formal athletics at the University. The Dean has recently conferred with Professor Conwin of Yale and Dean McClenahan, of Princeton, who were acting in a similar capacity for their respective universities, and a joint decision to abolish intercollegiate athletics when war should be declared was reached. It is understood that they have already...
DEAN BRIGGS' STATEMENT...
...investigation conducted by the Scientific American shows that the total mobile force of the United States, regular and militia, amounts to only a little more than 90,000 men. According to the statement of the committee on public safety, the need of men for all branches of military service is urgent, and, although enlisting has been taking place rapidly, many more volunteers are needed to prepare the country adequately for actual warfare. In case of invasion we shall need 380,000 stationary coast guard volunteer troops and 500,000 mobile troops to defend the country from foreign enemies...
...taking this action the University has put in definite form a statement that has been expected for some days. In accordance with their policies, the Faculty are making every effort consistent with the position of the University to place the full military and naval strength of the College at the disposal of the Government. Although no such decisive step has yet been made at Yale and Princeton, these universities are expected to take similar action in the near future...
...April 21. They should be addressed to Professor H. L. Warren, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Robinson Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. The drawings of the unsuccessful competitors will be returned. The drawings are to be signed by the competitor and are to be accompanied by a written statement signed by him to the effect that they have been made by him alone, without assistance of other persons and in entire accord with the provisions of the conditions of the competition...