Word: actions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Many English university men were killed in the war, but a greater thing than life--freedom--was saved; I look to the American college man now for decisive action," said the Honorable Arthur James Balfour, leader of the British Mission to this country, in a recent interview in the Yale News...
...nations to make a guarantee to the generations of the future of absolute freedom. It is upon the young men that the fate of any nation rests. When the war first struck England, our college men, many of whom were already officers in the army, were immediately put into action. They were among the first sent to France. To them belongs the honor of breaking the rush of the enemy. It was a critical moment and they responded nobly. Many were killed, but a greater thing than life--freedom--was saved...
...into the same paths that England traversed America has entered. The same problems are to be solved. We are all united by the same culture, the same language, the same ideals. One immediate goal confronts us, to defeat Prussianism. In accomplishing this we must have action immediately for a concerted and deathly blow, and to the American college man I look for coolheaded, but decisive action...
...meeting of the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports last evening it was voted on the recommendation of the Track Advisory Committee to award the track "H" to Henry Whitney Minot '17, of Boston, and Webster Sanderson Blanchard '17, of West Action. It was voted to authorize Dean Briggs and the graduate treasurer to act on such recommendation as the Graduate Advisory Committee might make in regard to the award of the "H" to Seniors...
...Stranger" has been written by Miss Leonore Loveman, who was formerly a student in Professor Baker's English 47. In three acts, the plot concerns the hostility of ancient customs in Hungary to American ideals, the former represented in the hero and the latter in the American heroine. The action throughout the play takes place in Hungary, and inasmuch as Miss Loveman, the author, is a native of Hungary, she is well informed as to the traditions and mode of life of the people in that land...