Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...World War resulted in a frightful breakdown of health services in every country," declared Dr. Alice Hamilton, a member of the Health Committee of the League of Nations and Assistant Professor of Industrial Medicine at the Harvard School of Public Health to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "However," she continued, "the Health Committee of the League of Nations has ameliorated conditions to a remarkable extent...
...first meeting, which was soon after the war, we were faced with outbreaks of malaria all over Europe. Another problem lay in the sleeping sickness prevalent in Africa. Following the treaty settlements England, France, and Belgium agreed on a uniform and cooperative treatment of this difficulty. The Committee has rendered extensive assistance in Esthonia, Lithuania, Czeckoslovakia, Poland, and "Greece: and is now receiving many re quests from South America, particularly to help stamp out leprosy...
...War veterans at the Chelsea Naval Hospital will be visited this evening by J. E. Barrett '30, W. R. Harper '30, and J. N. Trainer '31, who will talk to the veterans on athletic affairs at Harvard. Official motion pictures of the Harvard-Yale football game at the Yale Bowl last fall will be shown, and Captain-elect Barrett will explain the game in detail...
Ever since the war, with the exception of the larger preparatory and city high schools, the German language has been overlooked in a high percentage of the nation's schools. The resulting situation at Harvard illustrates the general condition. Faced with the language requirements, hoards of incoming Freshmen are turned over to the German Department to be equipped in a year or two with the reading knowledge of German necessary for the degree requirements and the demands of study in an important language of science. To accomplish this work is a heavy tax on, both the university officials...
...recent survey conducted at Columbia shares a unanimous sentiment among national leaders in public life, industry, and education favoring the re-instatement of German in the secondary curriculum. If the elimination of Germanic studies was a foolish manifestation of war-time hysteria, to allow public prejudice and the negligence of school authorities to block its return is but a perfect example of the old story, cutting off one's nose to spite one's face...