Word: western
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Lieutenant Colonel Hugh Cabot '94, M.D. '98, for the last year commander of the Harvard Medical Unit stationed on the western front with the British Army, will speak on "The Causes of the British Retreat on the Somme in 1918" in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House, at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening. The meeting is open to all members of the. University and is given under the auspices of the Phillips Brooks House Association...
...tour started on February 5 with the New York congress, after which President Lowell made two addresses in Boston on February 7 and 8. The party then started on its western tour and spoke successively at the congresses in Chicago; Minneapolis; Portland, Oregon, San Francisco; St. Louis; and ended with an address in Atlanta, Georgia...
...that the conditions obtaining at the present time are far different from those of a century ago. At the time when Washington and Jefferson warned us against "entangling alliances" and Monroe promulgated his famous doctrine, the United States could well afford to stand for a complete isolation of the Western hemisphere from the disturbing influences of European diplomacy. We had no outlying possessions to command our attention in foreign parts; the two oceans surrounding us were deemed a sufficient barrier to prevent any serious interference in American affairs by the European powers. Further more it was well understood that...
...made Roosevelt a great stateman, writer, scientist, sportsman, soldier. It made him the most beloved and the most hated of any public man in America. This restless dynamic spirit carried him from the White House to the jungles of Africa and South America, from ranching on the western praries to leading his men in action at San Juan Hill. His fearless Americanism in the Venizuelan trouble with Germany made the Kaiser exclaim afterwards, at the height of his power, that Roosevelt was the one man in the world he feared...
...door Relay Carnival will be held as usual in Philadelphia. It is scheduled for April 25 and 26, and, next to the intercollegiates, will be the most important college track event of the season. Teams will be entered by the University, Yale, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Cornell and probably several western colleges. Besides the relay races, there will be individual events and an all-around pentathlon...