Word: wars
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...slum problem; if 25, it looms large. It pays to build bad tenements that wreck the home. That is the reason of the fight. As I said, it is just a question of greed and of the cold indifference that asks "Am I my brother's keeper?" In that war the generation that is coming has to take sides. Which side...
...Harvard Indoor Carnival will be held in the Gymnasium and on the Holmes Field board track. The principal events will be a 15-yard dash, high-jump, shot-put, sack-race, tug-of-war, and inter-dormitory relay races. There will be six men on each of the dormitory relay teams and each man will run two laps on the Holmes Field track
...Chapelle of Boston on the general subject of the Church crisis in France will be held this evening at 7.30 o'clock in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House. The special subject for this conference will be "The Church and State in France. From the concordat to the war of 1870." The meeting will be open to all members of the University...
Those of us who used to study only the facts of history, Secretary Shaw said, to the neglect of the logic of history have missed the most important as well as the most interesting portion The number of battles in a given war, their dates and the officers commanding are non-essential, but the causes and the unexpected results of the war are of prime interest. No man planned the great republic as it is today, nor even anticipated the present condition of the states. Nothing was ever further from the present homogeneous republic than the thirteen original colonies, differing...
...this development of homogeneity each step has been in sequence to what has preceded. The first desire for union was the result of fear of the mother country. Later, came the War of the Rebellion, the greatest war the world has ever seen, and the result was a Union, welded in the white heat of civil combat. This was not planned, it was evolved. The policy of national liberality to those who have built railroads and factories, was of vast importance to the further development of the Union. The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries have been characterized by contests for territory...