Word: glasses
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Ware collection of Blaschka Glass Models and Plants will undoubtedly be the first object of interest to the visitor. It is on the third floor of the centre of the University Museum; the University Museum is the large building with the green roof directly north of the Yard on Oxford street...
Secretary Glass, in his speech in Boston Tuesday evening, pointed out the great advantage of having the Victory Loan subscribed by the people, rather than by the banks. This statement has a direct bearing on the drive at the University, for the number of subscribers to the loan has been woefully small. It is possible in the three remaining days of the drive for nearly every man to buy a bond, and by so doing the total will be much more representative of the University, than the present ratio of subscriptions...
Last spring, $67,850 was subscribed to the Third Liberty Loan by undergraduates of the University, and the Committee hopes that even more will be raised this year. The loan, as recently announced by Secretary Glass, will be for $4,500,000,000, all oversubscriptions to be rejected. The rate of interest, 4 3-4 per cent, will be higher than in any of the previous loans...
...active participant. Paying for the war is just as important as fighting it, and all of us can help to pay. We would be untrue to the boys who offered their lives if we failed to shoulder our part of the burden of those who stayed at home." CARTER GLASS, Secretary of the Treasury...
...Great is the fall thereof." And to the music of tinkling glass, takes place the last act of the happiest tragedy ever told, the "Passing of John Barleycorn." The amendment by which prohibition shall be written into the Constitution, has been ratified at last by the necessary number of states. Well may the tragic minority echo the prophetic words attributed to Nat Goodwin when, blindfolded, he was given water to taste. "I don't know what it is but it will never be popular...