Word: establishment
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...gift of $20,000 from Mrs. George Putnam was announced to establish a fund in memory of her brother, James Jackson Lowell '58, the income of which is to be used for the purchase of books for the College Library...
...measure is a well-recognized mode of warfare which she has herself employed in the past and is eager to employ in the present. As to the interference with importations into Holland and Denmark, it is a well-known fact that we were ourselves the first country to establish the doctrine of 'ultimate destination,' by preventing importations into the Mexican port of Matamoros because they were sent from there across the Rio Grande into Texas. Similarly, England, aware, for example, that more lard was imported into Copenhagen in three weeks than into all Denmark in the previous eight years...
Many men have tried to establish communication with Mars. From the most star-gazing professor of stellar history radiographing scientific inquiries, to the youngest Boy Scout wig-wagging questions about the baseball score, men of various degrees of wisdom have talked with the unheeding planet. Mars has been unresponsive. Perhaps that is because Mars is a gentleman and refuses to speak without a proper introduction to a chance acquaintance, especially such a disreputable feminine one as the earth. If so, the sun had better be called upon as an intermediary, to heliograph a social, "Earth, meet Mars." If the language...
...from the University who signify their willingness to take up the work seriously will be organized into a unit to begin regular Government instruction this summer at Squantum if the Government will establish a school there or at some other school if it is practical. This is the plan which the organizer of the unit intended to follow before the war crisis arose. It is planned now to meet the emergency of a declaration of war by passing upon the applications here and in the event of war to submit a certain number of them in a body...
...training has been laid out that will be rigorous enough to be worthy of its name. That Harvard is the first University to adopt an intensive system of training officers should not be a matter of pride, but rather a basis for the hope that other colleges will establish the same system, and that the foundations of a great citizen army will be laid among our young...