Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...them and in time he was unceremoniously thrown out and much to his displeasure transferred to the Tank Corps. How he got back into the Air Force has always been something of a mystery-and here is the explanation. While he was attached to the tank outfit, the French war in the Riff was at its height. One day the French military attaché appeared at the Foreign Office in London and announced that his government had heard that Lawrence was in Morocco helping the Riffians. According to the attaché he had been seen on the spot. The Under...
...prevention of war depends upon a proper treatment of the economic causes, suggested Mr. R. G. Hawtrey, exchange professor from London in the first lecture of his course on Economics and Sovereignty at Lowell Institute. Not only is this suggestion most significant for determining a means of attaining the most important aim of humanity at present, but also of the educational policy that necessarily must be followed to achieve world peace. Since the basic principle in which all educators are in accord is that the broad purpose of education is to fit the individual most efficiently to understand, appreciate...
...conservative than any other change recently suggested,, but it has a tangible efficiency and directness of perpose. A thoroughly universal education in economics is essential to alleviate the ignorance of the interrelation of sovereignty, property, power, and conflict which Mr. Hawtrey and Norman Angell suggest as basic causes of war. A general understanding of economics appears to be the simplest, sanest, and most significant educational advocacy among the recent flood of innovations and proposed experiments. With it will come the ideal of having the world think of economic ends in terms, not of individual power, but of international welfare...
...disturb the sleep of many a Harvard man. The Housing Commission suggested no method by which the cats may be gotten rid of, however, and Captain Brennan said that he was also at a loss to think of a plan of action that might be employed in the war on the felines. He suggested that he might call for volunteers among his men to form a "bean blower squad" and detail them to slink around the alleys and yards of the terrace and inflict their ammunition upon the molesting chorus. The only objection to this method is that it will...
...Moseley Travelling Fellowships; and for receiving, from men intending to study in the graduate or professional schools of the University, applications for the first assignment of the Bright, Daniel A. Buckley, Charles Downer, Parker, Frederick E. Parlin, Charles Elliot Perkins, Princeton, James A. Rumrill, Stoughton, and 1902 World War Memorial Fellowships and Scholarships...