Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...politician, and every politician has at least sprung from the workers. The maintenance of the Commonwealth on its present basis depends on the presence of an industrial body of workingmen in Australia itself. The Labor party, in short, cannot spare any more political units to fight the war--or thinks it cannot. It is a case of Australia first--with the Labor party first in Australia. --Boston Transcript...
...five o'clock this afternoon. He is a young man and knows how to talk to younger men. He is one of the progressive influences in our navy and knows how to explain his subject. What is more remarkable is that he has something remarkable to tell. With the war on, the navy demands our interest, whether or not it has been directed that way before. Our naval program, in the planning of which Secretary Roosevelt was invaluable, promises to lift our sea forces to a position worthy of the United States. It will be no dull dissertation this afternoon...
...Gordon McKay, but included the amount of $432,900, which was a part of the Endowment Fund of $10.000,000 to be raised for the University by the Alumni. This Endowment Fund campaign was postponed last spring and will not be resumed until after the close of the war...
...third by Professor Lord on "The Russian Situation," the fourth, scheduled for November 21 by Professor Wallace C. Sabine on "Aviation and the War," being unavoidably canceled. The next lecture was given by Professor Arthur D. Hill '94 on "What I Saw in France," the fifth by Dr. Albert Parker Fitch '00 on "The French Front and the Red Cross," and the last, one by Dean Gay of the Graduate School of Business Administration on "War Prices...
...watched Yale trample over the University and then came home happy because the best team won and because the men of Harvard were true sportsmen. Be that as it may, down in our hearts we know that in the last few years, that is to say, just before the war, the University was at its best. Like our ancestors, we came home from Soldiers Field happy because the best team won and most of the time it was our team that was doing the winning. Now the war has changed things: the informals have done their bit, but athletics...