Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...great, may win unaided skirmishes, but they may not win wars. The fullest resources of the nation in material must be gathered together to arm troops and sustain them during the long havoc-working months in the field. As example of this, if the constantly expected but unlikely sudden breakdown does occur in Germany, it will be not a breakdown of man power, but of material, of money, of national credit whereby individuals will cease to bear arms in defence of a nation which cannot insure their possessions...
...College the ratio is 18 to one and in the Medical School five to one. These figures show the need of a large endowment to provide more teachers. That the officers of the school should carry burdens sufficient, as in Dean Thayer's case, to cause a complete breakdown, should not be expected, by the profession and by the alumni. for whose benefit the school exists...
Saliba entered the University last fall, but suffered a nervous breakdown through overwork in connection with the Syrian fund and was obliged to leave College. He had recently been discharged as cured form the state hospital at Northampton...
...possible that the lessons obvious- ly enforced by our own history, end, above all, by the recent lamentable breakdown of the European system of military preparedness and armed alliances, should be so completely lost sight of, as is suggested by this proposal to overturn American ideals--to depart from the traditional American policy, as President Nicholas Murray Butler has said, "in the face of the most impressive and emphatic lesson that history records that the traditional American policy has been right"? The advocates of this program of military defence seem wholly to overlook the fact that our national security...
Frazier Curtis '98, Commanding Officer of the Harvard Flying Corps, has suffered a nervous breakdown. As a result his doctor has ordered a complete rest. Steps are being taken to secure a temporary successor. In the meantime the undergraduate work of the Corps will go on as usual...