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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that these two libraries are so little used? Hardly more than one hundred of the members of the Union enter the library in a day; and many of these seem to think themselves privileged to mutilate or purloin the books. Less than fifty men use the Warren House Library per day. Both could accommodate many more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WASTED LIBRARY OPPORTUNITIES. | 4/16/1915 | See Source »

...drop him out like that." Then I said, "What does D mean in Math" (This is now my main point, for Math. has always been his A study). The gentleman answered, "We go very swift at Harvard and probably your son cannot keep up the pace." Just think of such an answer. Then I said, "That E in Economics?" He said, "Well they are all taking first year at that." Mind you, to travel so swiftly in such a deep subject. At high school he had three years in German but at Harvard it was another...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 4/13/1915 | See Source »

...number contains food for thought on many institutions, for him who will but read and think...

Author: By J. GARLAND ., | Title: Illustrated is Valuable Diary | 4/12/1915 | See Source »

...that the army of the United States should be well maintained on its present scale; and that the navy should be gradually made the most effective possible in the light of naval experience in the present war; but that it should not be increased in size. I also think that the national government should secure a large stock of the best possible artillery of all sorts,--again the best in the light of this war's experience. I hope, too, that the several states will improve their present volunteer militia system. About what I understand to be General Leonard Wood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IN FAVOR OF NATIONAL ARMAMENT | 3/30/1915 | See Source »

...about the war, taking sides (usually the same side) with earnest eloquence; but here was a fellow, happy, rich, strong, with a promising life before him, who did not hesitate to volunteer under a foreign banner and sacrifice his life for the cause he thought (and most of us think) right. Let undergraduates and professors and alumni take off their hats in reverent memory of their brother who by dying for his ideals has brought honor upon himself and upon the University he so nobly represented. RUDOLPH ALTROCCHI...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 3/29/1915 | See Source »

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