Word: pressed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...dispatch to the Associated Press late last night the rowing authorities of the U. S. Naval Academy announced their acceptance of the University's suggestion for a triangular race between the Navy, Princeton, and the University. The date set for the event was given as April 19, and the place is to be Annapolis...
...Magazine reaps in fields other than those from which the Advocate procures its harvest. The Advocate, as one man, agrees with you most heartily that the Harvard Magazine should stand on its merits. It was in accordance with this idea that I had removed from the number now in press a cartoon unfavorable to the Harvard Magazine. In justice, let me add that the majority of the Advocate Board was critical of the wisdom of running any such notice of the new paper. It was after reconsideration and in accord with the sentiment of the Board that that cartoon...
...hastily thrown together and so clumsily phrased that even he cannot interpret clearly what it means. Comparatively few American citizens have read the draft at all, and so far as the American public is concerned, aside from the debates in the Senate and some critical discussion in the press, there has been no attempt to make clear just what effect any one of the twenty-six articles will have either upon the future of the United States or upon the future of the world. With a proposal of such momentous possibilities pending, it is inconceivable that the people...
...honorably discharged soldiers and sailors may now apply for the $60 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...
...which led to the present war, into which we were forced whether' we would or no. In the second place, the vast influence of the United States, about which President Wilson spoke so feelingly, at Mechanics Building will be permanently recognized; and we shall be in a position to press peace and democracy upon the rest of the world. When men argue that we are thus putting the destinies of the United States out of our hands, they mean that there is danger that European nations will combine against us in spite of the League of Nations. Other nations, however...