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...worry about the shipping problem and wonder how to carry a million men a year to France, but the notice of the arrival of the German liners is a most encouraging event in a period of doubt and hesitation. The other branches of the service might take the Navy's work as an example. They could learns a great lesson...
...Briggs, assistant librarian of the Widener Library and now in France, is, as representative of the American Library Association, in charge of the problem of distributing books to the military bases of the Expeditionary Forces. Twenty thousand books of fiction and general interest have recently been purchased in England by the American Y. M. C. A., and are now being sent to the soldiers at the military camps...
...spite of five holidays and plans for festive Mondays, neither anthracite nor bituminous is more plentiful. The coal question remains a serious thing. It was thought that the Student Council's plan of early retiring and early rising would contribute Harvard's small share to the solution of this problem. The student body has thought otherwise. Among the opponents of this plan there were heard those who condemned official action and advocated individual effort. Let every individual have it as his duty to economize coal and its derivatives. This is the only course left. We charge every student to feel...
...this time when Boston is economically and socially seeking to forget the whine of peace-loving individuals, the least we at College can do is to set aside pacific pettiness (as exemplified in recent communications to the CRIMSON) and look at our problem of setting back the College time-table in its war-time setting...
...administrators, the central head has wildly adopted this scheme. Suddenness intensifies the radicalism or the more, made, apparently, in a desperate attempt to wipe out the ever-increasing fuel difficulties. Though an effort to remedy a grievous situation, it is rather a confession of inability to cope with the problem by other means. Because the Government regulator has failed to arrange a satisfactory coal schedule he must now upset business. In haste and by sensational means, he tries to bring about in a short while what he has been unable to accomplish in several months. Instead of accommodating the supply...