Word: shipping
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...series of lectures by professors of the University has been arranged by the Special Aid Society to be given at Huntington Hall, Boston. Professor Albert Bushman Hart '80 will give the first lecture tomorrow evening at 5 o'clock, when he speaks on "Who Steers the Ship of State?" All the topics come under the general subject of "Government," and they will be as follows: April 11, Professor Arthur Norman Holcombe '06, on "The Inside of State Government"; April 18, Professor George Grafton Wilson, on "International Rights and Duties of American Citizens"; May 2, Professor G. C. Whipple...
...Yale's eleven in the hammer-throw, and three men to Yale's ten in the high jump. At the beginning of this winter's season fifty men reported for practice, and during the last week there were only twenty faithful who had been willing to stay by the ship. At the recent Triangular Meet held in Boston there were perhaps seventy-five men from the University who supported the Harvard contestants...
...other hand suppose the submarine gets near enough to discharge a torpedo or a gun if the vessel is thereby sunk, that is the overt act for which the United States has been waiting. If there is any opportunity, our armed ship presumably will reply and war would begin then and there; but in this case demonstrably by the act of the Germans...
...liable to be sunk with notice. The sole alternative is for the Germans to fire upon a vessel prepared to fight and expected to reply with force. Therefore, apparently the only thing that can obviate war is for the Germans to forego their announced purpose of sinking every merchant ship that comes within the barred zone. Short of that, armed neutrality simply brings the whole controversy down to a point where one side or the other must fire and fire first...
...most interesting. There are grave objections against any attempt to render the effects of one art in the terms of another, but the beauty of phrase and image in this carefully wrought prose poem is nearly sufficient to tease one out of thought and critical severity. In "The Ship" Mr. Low prepares an elaborate and impressive setting for an action which is not presented or even adequately suggested. There are no essays...