Word: western
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that the coming food crop will be the maximum in size; other institutions are giving special courses in military medicine; the Tufts wireless station is offered as a central wireless station for New England; the students at Smith, Wellesley and Mount Holyoke are engaged in Red Cross work; and Western Reserve has already formed an ambulance unit of more than 100 men. Nearly all the colleges and universities are taking a census of their alumni in order that all resources may be utilized immediately as soon as the Government issues the call...
...Western Union Telegraph Company has enlarged its Cambridge headquarters to more than twice their former size. It now has a spacious well-equipped office, including individual glass-topped writing tables. The operating force has also been greatly increased and now four telephone operators, two Morse operators and two bookkeepers besides the manager and squad of ten messenger boys make up the day staff. There are eight people on the night force...
...authentic. They are given under the auspices of the Greater Boston Ambulance Committee for the benefit of the American Ambulance Service in Europe. These are the first French films to come to this country. They show not only the American Ambulance in action, but also the armies on the western front and many struggles and battlefields familiar to Americans through press dispatches. Fort Douaumont, the battle of the Ancre, and the Allied Armies at Salonika are all shown, and the famous "tanks" are seen in action...
...first time this year the Stadium track was in use. Although it is still a little soft, it is better than the other track, and the former will be used from now on. Only the straightaway and the track along the western side of the bowl are in proper condition as yet, but a few more days of this warm weather or a warm rain will get the frost out of the ground, so that the entire track can be put into shape...
...rich students, and a trip through the new Freshman Dormitories might have corrected some of the ideas of this son of the young and growing West in regard to Harvard's devotion to the rickety old dormitories of a former century. The comical irritation which he shares with other Westerners over the "affectations" of our Eastern speech might have also been tempered had he but stopped to consider the counter irritation which an occasional raucousness of the Western voice often produces upon more fastidious Eastern ears...