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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...this law, Congress in effect 'anticipated by about six months a nation-wide prohibition under the Federal amendment. The amendment cannot be repealed; it must be enforced, beginning next winter. So far as any individual is concerned, it may make little difference whether wine and beer can be bought and sold for beverage purposes in the second half of this year, so long as they must go under the ban within a few months at the latest. But something more important than that is now involved. Having determined upon its policy, the Government should adhere to it for the sake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 5/23/1919 | See Source »

Such instructors as Professors Smyth, Hughes, and Swain in the departments of Mining and Civil Engineering have a wide reputation. Professor Sauveur, who has just returned from important war work with the French government, has received international recognition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE McKAY SCHOOL. | 5/21/1919 | See Source »

...purpose which will grow even after the men who fought in the Great War are dead. We must not allow the great moral principles for which America went into the war, and which have not received their due recognition at the peace conference, to be forgotten. And any nation-wide organization which is to stand for such ideals must include the college men of the country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE AMERICAN LEGION. | 5/19/1919 | See Source »

...their ardent backing and this time, they were not disappointed. They saw an organization which was playing at top speed from start to finish, and that is what they have been waiting to see. If the team has really found itself and can continue this consistent aggressiveness and wide-awake playing Coach Duffy and Captain McLeod need not fear the result of the coming games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BASEBALL TEAM COMES THROUGH | 5/15/1919 | See Source »

Yale followed suit soon afterwards by adopting "true blue" and the idea spread rapidly. Thus, almost by accident, the University came into possession of its crimson standard and at the same time set a fashion that was to attain wide popularity among schools and colleges through the land...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOW CRIMSON BECAME THE COLLEGE COLOR. | 5/6/1919 | See Source »

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