Word: oceanic
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This is merely an index of how this nation is penny-wise and pound-foolish. New York city is having an epidemic of robberies such as it has not had for years. More than once recently a longshoremens strike has tied up ocean travel. New York has been spending money like the proverbial drunken sailor. Nor is New York alone in its extravagance. Our Congress is appropriating millions of the public's money with scarcely an inquiry to find out how those millions are to be spent. The interest on the war-debt is going to amount to a billion...
According to reports received from New Haven, Yale is planning to send to England its track team, and possibly its crew, regardless of whether the University accompanies them or not. Yale track officials assert that not only has the challenge been sent across the ocean by Professor Mendel, chairman of the Yale Athletic Board of Control, but that the Yale board has already voted to allow the team to go to England...
Professor R. A. Daly '93, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, returned to the University last Sunday from a successful field trip to the Samoan Islands, Several important discoveries were made, including the finding of positive proof than within geologically recent time the surface of the ocean has sunk approximately twenty feet. This has long been suspected by geologists but definite confirmation of the theory has been lacking until this discovery...
Harvard will today act as host to the man who was first to cross the Atlantic Ocean by air, Lieutenant-Commander Albert C. Rcad. Members of the University will have an opportunity to hear personally from Commander Read of his experiences, when he will speak at the meeting in the Living Room of the Union at 8'clock. Preceding the meeting there will be a small dinner given in his honor in the Trophy Room of the Union at 7 o'clock. commander Reads talk tonight is the first one of a series which the Graduate Manager of the Union...
...athletes who were in the army during the war have been selected by the officials of the Amateur Athletic Union from the colleges and athletic clubs of the country to represent the United States at the games, and Moore, accompanied by R. W. Harwood '20, is already on the ocean...