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...addition to the mass meeting, which will be held in Tremont Temple on the evening of October 21, there is to be during the day a demonstration of practical field work on Boston Common, along the lines of what was done during the recent Governor's Conference. Another interesting and instructive feature will be a demonstration of the lack of preparedness in the form of an exhibit which may become permanent and which will show in concrete form how lacking this nation is in preparedness to defend itself in case of attack by another nation...
...this desire, "that Harvard at least should know the truth of this war," I owe one of the most interesting days of my life--the 16th of last March--when I motored some fifty miles along the French front from Nancy through Lunecille to Gerbeviller and back, in company with the Mayor, and Recteur of the University of Nancy, and Professor Paul Petit, of the Faculte des Sciences there. On the previous day, during my lecture at the university, I had heard the cannon roar at Pont-a-Mousson, and though I was assured that there was came absolu along...
...signs of having passed the previous night in the trenches. The fields on either side of the road were pitted with shell holes; many of the farmhouses were charred and roofless; and the plain wooden crosses which marked the graves of fallen heroes became increasingly frequent as we sped along. Some of the bodies had been buried so hastily that the spring rains and early ploughing had uncovered them, with the result that in many places the air was black with crows hovering about in search of carion. A strapping young peasant girl, whom we found later...
...great reading room stretching along the entire front of the building, is the main centre for the majority of the students. To reach the second floor from the front entrance hall, one goes up the central staircase to the level of the Memorial Hall, and then follows either of the two flights which turn backward and upward towards the front of the building. To the left is a short corridor from which rise the stairs to the third story and at the end of which is a special reading room now used for periodicals. The stack level opens from...
...large room in the northeast corner of the third floor, which covers the whole building around the central court. Next is the French Library and then the Graduate School of Business Administration. On the south side is the Bureau for Municipal Research, government seminary rooms, and the German Library. Along the west side is Robert Gould Shaw's famous theatrical collection; then come the Mathematics Library, and study and seminary rooms for Economics. In the northwest corner of the top floor is the Child Memorial Library, (English). And along the north side of the light court are the Sanskrit Library...