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President Lowell and Senator Lodge are relatively of the same attitude on the League of Nations as were Webster and Hayne in their famous debate over the theory of "states' rights." In his life of Webster, Senator Lodge says that Webster's argument on the supremacy of the central government was historically unsound. He asserts that in 1787-88 "there was not a man in the country . . . who regarded the new system as anything but an experiment entered upon by the states, and from which each and every state had the right peaceably to withdraw, a right which was very...
...professor of English at the University, will give many of the courses formerly conducted by Professor W. L. Neilson, who resigned from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences last year to become president of Smith College. Among those remaining for war work in Washington is Professor K. G. T. Webster '93, director of the Summer School and assistant professor of English, who will serve in the Personnel Division of the Air Service. Professor E. P. Kohler of the Chemistry Department will be engaged in chemical work at Washington, and Professor G. H. Edgell '09 of the Fine Arts department...
...Boston many mass meetings were held throughout the Metropolitan District in the interest of the Red Cross. Chairman Webster, in charge of the Boston drive for the Second Red Cross War Fund, issued a statement calling for $4,000,000 from the city, a 33 percent over subscription of the minimum quota. He also refuted charges of large administrative expenses in the management of the Red Cross in the following words...
Those who joined in making the gift are Major Henry Lee Higginson '55, who gave Soldiers Field to the University; President Lowell, Andrew Carnegie, Eben S. Draper, James J. Storrow '85, George P. Gardner '77, Charles A. Stone A. M. '14, Edwin S. Webster, Mrs. Thomas B. Gannett, A. H. Bristow Draper, Francis L. Higginson '00, and the estates of Nathaniel Thayer '71 and James Stillman...
...roster of the cadets has reached a total of 159, with the addition of two new men to the previous list, D. H. Marsh and F. B. Webster. Twenty-six former members of the University will be included in the Ensign School, ten of whom were appointed by President Lowell...