Word: statement
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...statement in the news columns of the CRIMSON of March 7 in regard to the Harvard Endowment Fund is slightly misleading. You say that "the committee has not attempted to give a great deal of publicity to their movement and raise the money in a short time, but they plan to go slowly and to give years to the collection of the fund." Quite the contrary, the committee has given the $10,-000,000 Fund considerable publicity both in the newspapers and otherwise. This publicity has had the effect of prompting several very substanial gifts wholly unsolicited and many expressions...
...special article written by Professor Hart in today's issue gives a concise statement of our present international predicament. Although concerted action on the part of the President and Congress during the last month might have placed the country in a less paralyzed, less ridiculous situation, our immediate helplessness is obviously due to inadequate and antiquated legislative rulings and to the unbelievable characteristics of a few of our legislators. The events of last Saturday and Sunday in the Senate should serve as a vivid object lesson to young men who are just leaving college. Everyone deplores the actions...
...agree with this opinion in the main and yet feel that it is slightly wrong in its implications, dangerously wrong in the time and place of its statement. One may feel at first that the opinion finds some support in the very number of the magazine in which it appears. In both the prose and the verse of this number there is excellent artifice, ingenious technical device, promising experimentation. But after all, this is as it should be. The presence of these things even in overflowing measure does not argue a necessary absence of sincerity. For, besides the two sorts...
...Government has made no definite statement as to what positions, in case of war, will be open to men who have taken the civilian course for naval training, but the men who fit themselves for this work before the opening of hostilities are certain to get officerships ahead of those who wait until after a declaration of war before starting to train...
Owing to the decreased attendance in the Freshman General Athletic Class because many of its members are busy with drill, it is doubtful whether the class can be continued. Relative to abandoning the weekly meetings of the class, Ellery H. Clark '96, its director, has made the following statement...