Word: ages
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...which is known to people as the Great War or the Terrible War, according as they are influenced by its grandeur or its agony, it was freely prophesied that the world would see a renaissance of literature, and that poets, stirred on by magnificent deeds, would write this present age down to everlasting fame...
...five continents are tossed in war. Does not this heroic age in which we live arouse some fire from an uninspired generation? Homer, as the legend goes, wrote the two great epics about the little feuds of a handful of half-barbaric and rather unhygienic Hellene chieftains. Their war was no more than a tribal war, yet the world for three thousand years has spoken, when it would speak of grand things, of Ilium...
...which is bringing financial stress to the college. It is believed that through this policy, Dartmouth will be able to maintain its momentum and preserve its organization, for the purpose of giving opportunities of maximum usefulness during the war to the great number of men not yet of military age, or ineligible for other reasons...
...restore athletics with the opening of the fall term. It was decided at the last meeting of the athletic committee to play through the football schedule that has been prepared if it was at all possible to get together a team from among the younger men of non-military age when they return in September. The Bronx collegians will be much weaker than a year ago, but it has been agreed that the best way to keep the underclassmen in good physical shape for their future entry into military service is by the extension of sports...
...minimum age for admittance into the camp is 17 years. All applicants will be required to pass a physical examination rigorous enough to determine their capacity for military training...