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...lent, or paid in the form of taxes, to the Government. Congress has appropriated unstintingly for every object calculated to assist in the prosecution of the war; nearly twenty billion dollars has been alloted to the various executive departments for their use during the current fiscal year. Yet in comparison with this unparalleled out-pouring of funds, the results have been small. Without in any way minimizing the magnitude of our war achievements, it is conservative to say that they have been incommensurate with the money available for their attainment...
...reason why sufficient funds to arrange games with outside colleges or service teams should not be provided. The only requirement for organizing a team in any sport is that enough men show an interest. In fact, minor sports are considered by the Athletic Committee as important in comparison to major sports, as they were before...
...Lord of the Admiralty. "Despite glowing reports in the American press, and great as the effort of that country doubtless is, there is no doubt a considerable time must elapse before the desired output is obtained." But so far is he from intending disparagement of the United States in comparison with the United Kingdom that he says in the latter there has been a serious drop in the rate of ship production, that owing to labor unrest and strike difficulties the men in the yards are not working as if the life of the country depended on their exertions...
...year were 8,849, as against 9,160 for the year before. American authors, who furnished 8,430 of the books of 1916, contributed but 8,107 to the lists for 1917. Imported books fell from 1,648 to 1,324 in the two-year period of comparison; American prints of foreign works rose from 367 to 629, this increase being accounted for by the natural boom in war books...
...will meet its fifth opponent of the season when Andover is played at the Charlesbank rink this afternoon. Andover has played only two games this season, winning from Boston Latin and losing to Stone School in a 3 to 0 game. The latter game furnishes the only basis of comparison for today's game, since the 1921 hockey players easily defeated the Boston school in its first game by the score...