Word: statements
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...next statement is amazing. The "specialists" for this army--machine gunners, engineers, and so forth--are to be formed from a nucleus of regulars in case of emergency. Are the lessons of the recent war forgotten? The Regular Army took five months to "expand" and to whip recruits into shape. But human nature is ever optimistic. Next time we hope we will do better...
...yesterday's papers, and its ascription to a corrosive Yale propaganda. According to the dispatches, "one luxury is a candy kitchen where undergraduates can make fudge or taffy." A few years ago a public which took its opinion of Harvard from professional humorists would have found in this statement confirmation of all its suspicions, but football scores of 41 to 0 against Yale prepared the world for the spectacle seen in a war in which Harvard men were honorably conspicuous long before America entered, and in which the Harvard roll of service eventually exceeded, if recollection is right, that...
...existing institutions, it is in a way comforting to remember that the problem is not a new one. More than once before nations have been thrown into a turmoil because of capital-labor controversies and they have recovered. As one encouraging example of this truth, we reprint here a statement made by Daniel Webster in 1828, which seems particularly pertinent...
...statement was issued last Friday by President Lowell, Professor Charles R. Lanman and Professor Theodore W. Richards '86 that the use of their names in connection with certain peace propaganda was unauthorized. A document had been circulated under the heading of a "Request of the Dutch League of Nations Committee to the Rulers of States, Members of governments and of Parliaments, and Delegates to the Peace Conference" asking them "to forget and forgive" matters connected with the war. The University names were attached to this document without authorization, and President Lowell and the others entered a protest of "while fervently...
That the University Ensign School which graduated its last class of cadets yesterday, was the first Officers' Material School in the country to open during the war and the last to close, was the statement of Capt. P. W. Hourigan, commandant of the School, in his farewell address. It also, he said, had the reputation of turning out the best reserve officers of any one school, and had graduated 890 ensigns, second only to the Annapolis Reserve School which commissioned 1,000 men. President Lowell, and Rear Admiral Spencer S. Wood also spoke, Lieutenant A. R. Parker, Chaplain...