Word: writing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...bonus which is being given them by the government, according to a recent statement to the press. An extract from the announcement made by the War Department concerning this compensation follows: "Those who have been discharged and have received their final pay without the $60 bonus, should write to the General Zone Finance Office, Lemon Building, Washington, stating their service since April 6, 1917, date of last discharge and address to which they desire bonus checks sent and enclosing their discharge certificate or military order for discharge or both, if both were issued...
...have splendid opportunities, through the Harvard professors and students, to learn the available lesson--to make our life's achievements larger. We must open mindedly study to appreciate what is good in the customs and ideas of the American people. We are taught how to talk, how to write from left to right, and how to be in close touch with all phases of actual American life. The spirit of higher education, which enables us to see the social and moral activities of Harvard, finds response in our hearts. It shows us a type of education, different from that...
Ignorance and illiteracy are the greatest possible obstacles to a free democratic government, a spirit of patriotism and Americanism. It is difficult to expect a man who cannot write his own name, whose whole life is bound up in six days of manual labor and a pay roll at the end, to appreciate the advantages of our particular constitution. Why should he not join the I. W. W., the Bolsheviki or any other organization that promises him more personal advantages, more money, more power. The agents of destruction are amply provided with arguments for his consumption...
...under way for a resumption of activities upon the opening of the fall term. To men with a liking for any branch of theatrical work, unusual opportunities are offered. The Harvard Dramatic Club has occupied a unique position among university stage organizations, being the only college dramatic club to write, act, and produce its own plays, and the only one, with the exception of certain societies in co-educational institutions, to have women act the women roles, a policy which has brought its performances much nearer to the professional standard than is possible where men do the female parts. Membership...
News candidates from the Sophomore and Freshman classes will work separately so that the latter will not suffer from a more limited knowledge of the University. Both groups will be expected to cover and to write up the various activities of University life...