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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...plan instituted two years ago for broadening thought within the College has proved itself a success. The discussion group system has spared many undergraduates the mistake of totally burying themselves in their own activities; for while the region between the Peabody Museum and the Stadium holds for the Harvard student perhaps more life and interest than any other spot, it unfortunately covers but a small area...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOR BROADER EDUCATION. | 10/3/1919 | See Source »

This is the first time in two years that Memorial Hall has been open. During the last two years it has been feeding in the region of 4500 men. Fifteen hundred S. A. T. C. men were using the Freshman dining halls last year, and the bulk of the students were registered at the Union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dining Halls Booming | 10/2/1919 | See Source »

...unpublished facts concerning the life of Lieutenant-Colonel James A. Shannon, former commandant of the University R. O. T. C., who was killed in action October 8, 1918, have recently been received by the CRIMSON. When the American forces began the great drive against the Germans in the Argonne region on September 26, Colonel Shannon obtained permission to leave an important post in the Personnel Bureau and go to the front. During the terrific fighting trained officers were in demand, and he was given command of a certain infantry regiment in the absence of its colonel. For his efficient service...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLONEL SHANNON KILLED BY FRAGMENT OF SHELL | 1/16/1919 | See Source »

...into practice a more rational means of settling international disputes than by the accustomed resort to arms. To the intellectually timid this seems such a daring and impetuous leap from the secure confines of precedent, over the chasm of unfathomable disaster, to the safe but somewhat precarious region of a new and better international life, that they lose no opportunity to be-little its advantages and magnify its difficulties. Such men are utterly out of tune with the age in which they live; in their minds they are living in the day when "might took the place of right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS. | 12/13/1918 | See Source »

...with the trenches of the great Somme battle of 1916, but are underlaid with the relics of a score of other conflicts fought for their possession. Julius Caesar led his legions across the the present battlefield in B.C. 57, while in pursuit of the Nervii. The Franks wrested the region from the Romans and the Northmen in turn from the Franks, sacking St. Quentin in 883 A.D. Picardy was devastated in the Hundred Years' War between France and England, and the armies of the Emperor Charles V. invaded it, besieging Peronne in 1536 and St. Quentin 21 years later. Wellington...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A HISTORIC BATTLEFIELD | 3/27/1918 | See Source »

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