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Dates: during 1910-1919
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College professors of France have agreed to hold a referendum to decide whether or not they shall transform their association into a national union to be affiliated with the Labor Federation. The school teachers already have decided to join the Labor Federation, although their right so to organize has not been recognized by the government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professors in France May Unionize | 11/6/1919 | See Source »

...months before we entered the war the action necessary to transform the United States into an efficient and strong martial nation, should war be forced upon us, was evident. We had the lessons of ten belligerent countries through months of conflict to guide us. We knew we must have a national army raised by conscription. We knew we must conserve our food supply if we hoped to live and let other nations live. We knew we must have prohibition not only of the manufacture, but of the sale of intoxicants. Without the first measure we could not have armies commesurate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WAR PROHIBITION. | 5/24/1917 | See Source »

...reason that they were ready-made, to hold a little aloof from current lanes of thought. Such a spirit, only too rare in our land of gigantic uniformities, and almost non-existent in our colleges, gave one hope that here at least a leaven was working which would ultimately transform American thought from the flabby courageless thing it is into something new and liberating...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Timidity in Current Monthly | 5/5/1917 | See Source »

...which is sure to arise if war should come. They realize that for them war may mean a general cessation of academic instruction, the turning of dormitories into barracks and of athletic fields into drill grounds. They know that the best service the colleges could render would be to transform themselves at once into so many training schools for officers. At Cambridge and elsewhere the authorities have foreseen this eventuality and are ready for it if it should come. --Boston Herald...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Officers the Great Need. | 3/14/1917 | See Source »

...Reverend Joseph B. Dunn, D.D., rector of St. Paul's Church, Lynchburg, Va., will address the St. Paul's Society in the rooms of the Society, Phillips Brooks House, this evening at 7 o'clock. His subject will be "To Conform or to Transform--A Chapter in the History of the Struggle for Existence." All members of the University are invited to attend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: St. Paul's Society to Meet | 3/14/1917 | See Source »

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