Word: statements
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...regards today's communication, the writer's statement that the "Union is a failure" and a "dying institution" is too preposterous for argument. The Union is of inestimable service to the University. It furnishes meeting places for numerous class, organization, and University gatherings; it provides lectures of great interest and profit, and furnishes club accommodations for sixteen hundred men. It is, unfortunately, in the anomalous position of serving the entire University, and yet being supported as a private club. The CRIMSON will gladly print sane expressions of opinion on the question of compulsory membership,--but no more such childish...
...consulted and questioned by those interested in positions in the Far East with the Standard Oil Company. The posts open are strongly recommended to graduate students or undergraduates, who are qualified, by Dean Gay, of the Business School. The Standard Oil Company is, according to his statement, the only one of American big business corporations to have completely organized its foreign marketing facilities. The Singer Sewing Machine Company is practically the only rival to the concern in eastern lands...
...latest issue, the Alumni Bulletin suggests that Harvard undergraduates are being deprived of an opportunity when they miss hearing a lecture by Mr. John Masefield. This statement is undoubtedly not an exaggeration. Mr. Masefield stands in the first rank among present-day poets, and has also a reputation as a playwright. Some of the works by which he has won wide recognition ares "Salt Water Ballads," "A Tarpaulin Muster," "Captain Margaret," "The Street of Today," and "The Daffodil Fields." Among his plays which have been produced are: "The Campden Wonder," "Man," and "Pompey the Great." At Yale, at the University...
...book proper begins with a brief statement of the nature of war, and a summary of the military history and military policy of the United States. The first chapter also includes a refutation of the popular fallacies of our belief in our security from war, and in our ability to meet it without previous preparation, should it ever come. The second chapter discusses in detail the defences of the United States, and their organization. Chapter III depicts the enormous difficulties in the way of raising and supplying a volunteer army of the size we should need today, were we called...
Experience has shown, according to a statement of the committee, that recruiting for citizen camps must be conducted through strong civilian organizations, and that if results are to be accomplished "a thorough and well-organized campaign must be conducted...