Word: states
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Harold J. Laski, instructor in the University History Department, has been appointed Harvard Lecturer in Political Science at Yale. Announcement comes from New Haven that Mr. Laski, who is author of "Sovereignty" and of a new book of the same series entitled "Authority in the Modern State" which is to appear in a few days, will give two courses in Political Science, going to New Haven once a week for lectures...
These words apply to the cases of many men in Harvard. They come here as strangers from an obscure school, in contrast with those who enter from the big preparatory schools, and make up their minds to be lonely. Because somebody doesn't pull them out of their solitary state, they conceive the University as composed of but two classes, snobs and grinds. They forget that the men who come out on top started, in many cases, on the same level as themselves. They become cynical and profess to believe that the ordinary undergraduate is not worth knowing, that...
...other day Senator Lodge received a timely letter from the Lieutenant-Governor of the state suggesting that a resolution be introduced in Congress to change the name of the Panama Canal to the Roosevelt Canal in commemoration of the late Theodore Roosevelt. The idea of such a memorial is excellent; as the Governor expresses it is "to link together for all time the name of this great American leader with the great American contribution to the world...
...people of the United States purpose in city, state and nation to honor the memory of Theodore Roosevelt. Congress will meet in joint session that day and by unanimous vote of both houses the eulogy on their behalf will be delivered by Henry Cabot Lodge. His selection for that solemn service has an appropriateness that the country was no less quick than the Congress to attest. The Governor of New York, Colonel Roosevelt's life long State, has set the example which other governors are following in rapid succession, the Governor of Rhode Island being the first...
...Massachusetts Committee has been assigned the task of raising $1,500,000, which is the Bay State's quota of the national drive for $30,000,000 for relief work in the near East...