Word: wars
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...organized games. The first we know of it is that it was played by the Spartans, and their style of play amazes us by its similarity to the game of today. Football, too, was a sport common to all village greens in in America following the Revolutionary War. The traditions of the older colleges of America are laden with stories of campus football...
...Kirkland street, diagonally opposite Memorial Hall is the Germanic Museum. The construction of this new building was completed in 1915 but during and since the war it has been closed to the public...
...floor is found the Memorial Room, where the Harry Elkins Widener Collection is kept; book lovers may, upon application to the attendant, inspect the rarer volumes. Outside the Memorial Room are tablets holding the pictures of all the members of the University who lost their lives in the Great War. The Farnsworth Room, situated to the right of the main entrance, is a memorial room containing a splendid collection of standard authors. This room is intended only for pleasure reading and studying is not permitted. On the top floor there are a number of special, smaller libraries. The most notable...
...statement in the article on the photographs of Cambridge from the air, page 6, Section 3, column 4, that the photographer, Mr. Galaid, was a first lieutenant in the motor transport corps during the war, is incorrect. He at no time held such a rank. The mistake was discovered too late to be corrected...
...that the English political system does not prevail in the United States. Could Congress be dissolved and a general election held, Senator Lodge and his followers would quickly discover that their long-winded orations and demagogic platitudes have not convinced the American people of the necessity of remaining at war with Germany while the rest of the world is enjoying the fruits of peace. Carried away by reckless partizan spite and vindictive hatred of Woodrow Wilson and all his works, the Republican side of the Senate succeeded in so emasculating the Treaty that the Democrats could in honor do nothing...