Word: transporting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Charlie Hart, the University boat-rigger, who has been at Princeton for the past week, has satisfactorily completed the work of altering the Princeton 1915 shell from a starboard to a port stroke arrangement, so that it will be unnecessary for the University to transport a shell to Lake Carnegie. Both the University and 1921 crews will use the same re-rigged shell, the race for the Freshman crews being scheduled before that for the University eights. Minor alterations in the rigging to suit the University eight will be made in the interval between the races...
...offensive might have ended where it now stands. But the German populace demands more than an advance--it demands the destruction of the allied resistance and the capture of Paris. Hinderburg must push the assault, backed with decreasing artillery support and supplied over more and more tenuous lines of transport service. In this he is likely to over-reach himself, and when he does we can count on the strategist Foch, who commands the reserves, to counter-attack relentlessly. The rout into which a demoralized victory can be transformed is well illustrated by the slaughter of Russians following their advances...
...ordering that shipping space in the amount of 50 tons per month be set aside by the army transport service for the shipment to France of American Library Association books for soldiers, General Pershing has given unmistakable recognition of the need of reading matter for the use of our men in France...
...York who utters these words. The British need and the American are exactly alike. It has been told and reiterated and emphasized we know not how often by the United States Shipping Board, the Emergency Fleet Corporation, the War Department and commercial bodies that feel the pinch of overseas transport shortage. Yet the total output of all the shipyards in America and the allied countries does not come up to the requirements for providing the nations and their armies with such supplies as are considered necessary to guarantee and expedite the wining...
...love for the University. We do not blame them for any hard feelings they nurse towards Cambridge and we refuse to tell them that they are now Harvard men. Still as they go they carry with them our admiration and as we in the future climb on a transport we hope to see at the helm one of the men who for many a day has gloomily tramped the board walks of the Yard...