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Dates: during 1910-1919
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After all, as "Facts About Sugar" reminds us, our principal saccharine substance is not selling at $1 a pound, as it did in the Napoleonic wars. If this seems too historically remote to be consoling it is worth reflecting that sugar is from 15 to 20 cents a pound in Europe today, and much more scarcely obtainable than it is here. We have sugar from California, Colorado, Idaho, Michigan and Ohio; from the Louisiana and Texas cane fields and mills, from Porto Rico and from Hawaii, as well as Cuba; with the result that there is no month...
...first coupon of the first Liberty bonds falls due on Saturday. An event that will be in the lives of several millions of us...
...perfectly sure that they will come regularly as clockwork. And once the interval is broken the firing does not start again. In the Ambulance we used to work on this basis and with almost perfect security. The irregular, apparently haphazard firing of the French always impressed us as likely to be much more disconcerting to the people at the other...
...last issue of the Yale Alumni Weekly a splendid protest against German influence in American universities is lodged and with it a splendid prophecy that the war will free us from this thralldom. Starting back in the fifties when American students began to study at German universities, this influence has grown until in all too many places it is a distinctly dominant force. The chief objection to the German method as pointed out in this Yale publication is its "soul-less" quality, Efficiency has been the watch-word; masses of information have been the result. This system has not only...
...Boston names--some of them extinct here--are to be found on the tablets of the interesting eighteenth-century Church of St. Paul. The generosity of the United States to their unlucky neighbor has been so notable that it ought to warm the hearts of all Canadians toward us. It is to be hoped that our students will do their share today. K. G. T. WEBSTER...