Word: usefulness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Language and Literature, former French Exchange Professor at Harvard), and Professor J. H. Woods. The task of the Committee is to collect methodically all available information concerning the trend of public opinion in America, both for a better understanding in France of the American point of view, and for use by the French Foreign Office, War Office and other branches of Government. The Committee wants chiefly clippings from newspapers, giving not so much items of news, as expressions of opinion, in leading articles, reports of speeches, sermons, and lectures, reviews, etc. A young Harvard graduate is about to be appointed...
...during the more exacting years of high-school and college, that those proclivities are still a part of oneself. They may be overlaid by the thoughts and habits instilled by the formal education, but they are there:--there as positive advantages if they can be revived and put to use in one's life profession, but, if they are not so utilized, then still there as a resource of restlessness, vague discontent, lack of interest and zest in one's profession, and so forth. For those interests and accomplishments which are not turned to account and given scope...
...well-known and established right of international law, the right of angary, allows belligerents to seize neutral shipping found in its territories, under stress of necessity and with proper compensation. Our need for more ships is great and ever-increasing. Holland will, of course, receive full payment for the use of her property...
...practicing during the past month, the combined University and Freshman baseball squads had their first outdoor workout of the season on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. An improvised diamond was laid out in left field of the University diamond, as neither the latter nor the 1921 field was fit for use. It is probable that the University and Freshman nines will meet this afternoon on the regular Freshman diamond in the first outdoor game of the spring practice. The candidates are out two days earlier this year than in 1917, when they held their first workout on March...
This week has been set aside for the collection of books for the soldiers, at the express recommendation of General Pershing. Like the clothing collection, it entails a minimum of sacrifice and a maximum of use. Books of all kinds that are modern and readable are in the greatest demand...