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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Thirty thousand dollars has been set as the minimum amount to be subscribed by the undergraduates of the University in the Victory Liberty Loan Campaign. This sum has been divided among the four classes of the college in proportion to their enrollment at the last registration. Subscriptions of unclassified and out-of-course students will be credited to the class with which the purchaser will graduate...
During the war the navy has been increased many fold, and has needed a corresponding increase of radio operators. But when it is considered that at one time there were nearly five thousand students in the school, it seems indicative that Cambridge has been a gathering place for the unfortunates of the navy...
...fact that two thousand American officers and men are studying in English universities marks a noteworthy event in the history of the educational relationship between the two Anglo-Saxon countries. In France, also soldier-students of the American Army are in attendance at the time-honored institutions of learning. The effect of academic association with European culture on the part of these men should be exceedingly broadening. It is to be hoped that a spirit of fellowship with the French and English student can be brought overseas by the home-coming soldier, thus strengthening the ties which already bind...
...Spoon River Poems, Edgar Lee Masters asks whether personal liberty means liberty of the mind or of the belly. If he had been on Boston Common yesterday his respect for the belly would have considerably increased. Fifty thousand souls yelled themselves hoarse against "the trick of a minority," a Boston Tea Party on a large scale was planned for the evening of June 30th, signs were displayed such as "First our beer, then our tobacco and then --" and "We fought for Democracy and we got Prohibition and Spanish Influenza." Whether prohibition be good or not the reaction against...
...Japan, with reference to the Chinese recognizes this economic phase of the question. Only recently a large number of Chinese laborers who were brought to Japan under contract to work for fifty cents a day for three years were sent home at a cost of twenty-five thousand dollars to the Japanese company that imported the Chinese, it having been discovered, after protest had been made by Japanese labor, that the company had failed to get the consent of the governor of the district to bring in the Chinese. Japan, as against China, does not hesitate to exercise the right...