Word: actions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...regularly every Wednesday at 8.15 o'clock by members of the faculty who are in touch with special and general aspects of war work and conditions in the warring countries, as well as by alumni and men outside the University who are qualified to speak on such subjects. This action has been prompted by the ignorance of many people in this country, and especially those in the University and the R. O. T. C. Dean Haskins clearly phrased this idea in his introduction of Lieutenant Morize, in the first of the lectures. "The least that we at home...
...under Kitchener. He enlisted soon after the beginning of the war, and spent six months of the fall and winter of 1914-15 in training at Aldershot, England, in the Tenth Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. After training for six months, the regiment was sent to France and went into action among the "first hundred thousand." While at the front his ability and courage won him promotion to a captaincy, the commission he now holds...
...committee made up of members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has undertaken to organize a series of lectures which are to be given weekly on subjects connected with the war. This action has been prompted by the ignorance of most people in this country as to the events which are going on in Europe and the obvious necessity for men, especially in the R. O. T. C., to become acquainted with the customs and conditions which prevail among the armies in France...
...first half the play was between the two 40-yard lines most of the time, there being very little action. Immediately after the kick-off Hubbard captured the ball for the soldiers when B. S. Blanchard '20, fumbled, but the Army...
This has been the result of our declaration of war on Germany. With no territorial ambition, we have entered a desperate struggle, merely in defense of freedom and neutral rights. Latin America, emotional, idealistic, and ever ready to respond to chivalrous action, has followed suit, and already a goodly number of her states have severed relations with Germany and lent their moral support to the Allies. A great advance has been made in the feeling of Pan-American unity, which with tact and prudence on the part of our diplomats, should lead to an understanding and friendship of lasting benefit...