Word: wars
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Lowell 1G., Librarian, and L. T. Lanman '20. This committee will meet within a few days-to determine the general policy in buying books and periodicals. The Union Library is in exceptionally good condition this year, 200 news books having recently been added, while the 150 Harvard writers of war books are expected to contribute their works. There are on file newspapers from all of the important cities in the United States, and, in addition, arrangements have been made with the CRIMSON and Lampoon to have all of the exchange college periodicals sent to the Union...
...captain of the University cross-country team will be elected today at a meeting of the first squad in the Locker Building at 3.30 o'clock. The usual custom of allowing only "H" men to vote will not be followed, owing to the disorganization caused by the war, so that every man on the first squad will be eligible to vote...
...backers of the plan hold that the United States should be liberal to her veterans. Canada, they say, has awarded bonuses averaging $420; but the pay of a Canadian soldier during the war cannot be compared to that of a Yankee doughboy. The Dominion is making a some what tardy retribution for what she probably now considers parsimonious treatment during the war. War time generosity has its advantages; peace time must bring a curtailment of all expenditures. We cannot fool ourselves into believing that the money does not come from our pockets; liberality takes on another aspect when it means...
...many years the vice-president of the company, and he is now director in several other large concerns, including the Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, the Clinchfield Coal Company, the Haverhill Gaslight Company, and the Raymond and Whitcomb Company. He is president of the Dallas Electric Company. During the war he acted for a time as assistant executive manager of the Massachusetts Committee of Public Safety. More recently he served as receiver for the Bay State Railway Company...
...honor to a great hero of the great war, whose victories are not of a military but of a saintly order; by profession an ecclesiastic, by temperament a scholar, by force of circumstances and of his own character a statesman. Early attracted by the scholastic philosophy he created when still young the Institute of Philosophy at Louvain, and possessing the strenuous industry of a scholar he took as his motto "Labor as a good soldier of Christ." His philosophic system comprehended the thought of all ages and the discoveries of modern psychology; and his fame, with that of all ages...