Word: pressing
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...memory of their lives and services might be fittingly preserved, the Corporation some time ago appointed Mark A. DeWolfe Howe of the Atlantic Monthly staff, as Biographer of the Harvard Dead in the War against Germany. Mr. Howe's task is now nearing completion, and the Harvard University Press promises for June publication the first of his four volumes. This will contain biographical, sketches of those 30 men whose deaths occurred before the United States entered the war. The book bears the appropriate subtitle, "The Vanguard...
...territorial provisions have already called new states into being and profoundly modified the frontiers of old ones. This side of the Paris Conference forms the chief subject of the new book by Professors Charles H. Haskins and Robert H. Lord ("Some Problems of the Peace Conference." Harvard University Press...
...hard to find any encouragement for the Honor System when examples of its failures continually crop up in the college press. The latest report is from the University of Illinois where a violation of the honor rules by three well known undergraduates did not meet with censure from the student body except in the form of an unsigned letter to the Daily Illini. The Illini printed the letter and in an editorial deplored the attitude of the undergraduates in not reporting the cases immediately to the honor commission...
...further Resolved: that this resolution be sent by telegraph to the President of the United States, the Secretary of State, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, and all Massachusetts congressmen; and that it be given the widest publicity in the press...
Interest in the Italian language and literature has been much quickened by the war, and to meet the increasing demand for new textbooks and new editions of modern Italian novels and plays, the University of Chicago Press is to issue shortly, the first volumes in a new series, "The University of Chicago Italian Series," which will be under the editorship of Ernest Hatch Wilkins (Harvard Ph.D. '10), a well-known authority on Italian literature...