Word: actions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Next Sunday morning the University religious exercises will once more be held in Appleton Chapel. The removal to the Faculty Room of University Hall was a wise action from the standpoint of saving coal, but it did not prove successful as far as attendance is concerned. This apathy of undergraduates may have resulted from force of habit-our young men could never find their way to University Hall-or from a conviction that the Faculty Room did not have the fitting appointments. An average of forty or fifty a day is indicative, if discouraging...
...Such actions are obviously wrong. But actions arise from motives, and motives are formed by inherited traits and acquired training. The former are beyond our power to change; the latter demands our immediate attention. In all the instances I have given above, the motive of the action was openly selfish and materialistic: private gain or personal comfort was the end desired. This materialistic motive pervades all human society at the present time; it lies at the heart of the social problem. Unfortunately, the evil is a difficult one to remedy; an easier and more effective method is to prevent...
...with the prospect of a strong ally for the attempt, would act as a spur on the Chinese, for the Trans-Siberian Railroad, the logical line of German advance, cuts directly through Manchuria, which is Chinese territory, and a German foothold there would mean disaster for China. Need for action must compel the Chinese to forget their present internal differences and unite as a nation. German propaganda, to be sure, has been spread in China, but the split between northern and southern provinces is due purely to Chinese politics. China is united at least in sentiment against Germany. Active resistance...
Lieutenant R. Jefferson Feigl '19 was killed in action last week while serving with the artillery of the American Expeditionary Forces in France. He was sent overseas immediately after completing his course at the first Officers' Training Camp at Plattsburg. He is the first officer from the present Junior class to be killed...
...March 11, Captain Edward McClure Peters, Jr., '16 was killed in action in France. Receiving his preliminary education in the Berkshire School, he obtained his degree from the University in 1916, entered the regular army in the fall of that year, and obtained his commission as second lieutenant in the infantry in the following November. He later entered the Army Service School at Leavenworth, Kansas, and was ordered to report for service on the Mexican border with the Third United States Infantry, later being transferred to the Sixteenth Infantry. Last June Lieutenant Peters went to France with the first contingent...