Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...small crop yield for the current season. The Department of Agriculture, in its annual survey, estimates a total production of our food staples less than that of any year since the beginning of the European War. For war purposes it matters not how little or how much these smaller crops exceed in value these of previous years. Armies and nations are fed with food, not with money; it is the physical material itself which must be produced in adequate amount, be its price high...
...rebuild the devastated sections of France through organized financing by American cities has recently been brought before the public. For example, New York and Boston could accumulate funds to rebuild Rheims, and the little towns and villages of France could be taken care of by some of our smaller cities. This idea merits serious consideration, both for its sentimental and its practical value...
...latest news from the College Office is thoroughly discouraging to those who have believed that Harvard undergraduates were putting their best efforts into work which becomes more necessary than ever because of the war. With a much smaller number of students, this year finds more than twice as many doing "officially unsatisfactory work." The number of men on probation is greater in proportion than ever before. What can this mean to the outside world but that Harvard men are unwilling to do their...
...more to the point this year for certain universities to unite their summer training into a single, All-College R. O. T. C.? Such an arrangement would abolish many of the objections to small camps, which are expensive even for the larger universities and impossible in the smaller colleges. In addition, it would have tremendous advantages in the following ways...
...same time pooled our equipment, experience, and instructors, the result would be a training camp which the Government could back without fear of partiality, and which, we are inclined to believe, it would back much more earnestly with men and money than has been the case with the smaller camps...