Word: uses
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Acting on the report submitted by the Committee on the Use of English by Students, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has passed the following resolutions...
During the past few months, I have talked with a great many men on the subject of preparing themselves to be of real use to our country in case of need, and the great majority of them are willing and anxious to do their part. Some are best fitted by temperament, association, and previous experience, to take up some form of military training, while others for the same reasons prefer to take up a course of training, which would make them of value to our navy in the event...
...addition to $2,000 in prizes, the society's poster committee will act as an agency in disposing of many of the best originals to electrical companies, for use in their own special campaigns. The purpose of the competition is to obtain an appropriate emblem for the celebration of America's Electrical Week December, 2-9, 1916. During this celebration electrical parades, pageantry, shows and special illuminations will be held in the leading cities of the western hemisphere...
While the society will use only the Grand Prize design in advertising the celebration, a stimulus is given to wide participation in the competition by special prizes for artists, art students, and undergraduates. There is a second prize of $500 and another of $300 for that design which is a public choice. Votes of visitors to the exhibitions will betaken to determine the latter. These exhibitions will be held in Boston, New York, Pittsburgh, and Chicago. For the best poster on the advantages of electric light, heat, and power submitted by an art student, the society will award...
...Moreover, every one who goes to these Camps will find that it is the best use of part of his summer that he can make. He will be a greater gainer in health, widened interests, acquaintance, pleasant experiences, and all other ways, than can possibly be achieved in any other use of his vacation time...