Word: ago
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...about to do it in a way so remarkably effective as to surprise the world. There was no referendum. To be sure, there was the universal service system in France. But that system (which the people as a whole voted for several years ago) in compelling responsibility, made the great mass of men think and fight with a finer spirit than thoughtless men can ever know. It was not referendum that made them think; it was the realization of their individual responsibility in defending their country...
Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps--G. C. Caner '17, J. O. Herrick '20, and K. M. Knox '18. R. A. Drake '19 and J. K. T. Philips '17 sailed ten days ago on the Espagne. Several other men are awaiting developments in the international crisis before sailing...
...final debating trials held in the New Lecture Hall Saturday afternoon and evening resulted in the award of the Coolidge Debating Prize of $100 to J. H. Spitz '17, of Brookline, for the best work done throughout the trials. Spitz was alternate on the team two years ago and a regular last year. He is president of the Delta Sigma Rho, an honorary debating society. The five men picked to make up the University debating team with him are: A. G. Aldis '17, of Lake Forest, Ill.; J. Davis '19, of Pittsburgh, Pa.; L. Dennis '19, of Washington...
...less true now than it was a hundred years ago that our first line of defence is the Navy. It is more true. The elaboration of modern war has made the machine the essential element of defence. A battleship is the most stupendous kind of a war machine. The contest between England, the greatest sea-power, and Germany, the greatest land-power, has proved to the world that a navy which may command the seas avails more than millions of men fighting in the trenches, or hundreds of millions of treasure...
...third annual Alumni Day at Princeton, which will be celebrated on February 22, and from present indication between three and four hundred graduates will return to Princeton for the inspection of the university while in session. The occasion, set a side as an annual event two years ago, as a means of increasing interest on the part of the alumni in the various activities of the undergraduates, has been arranged this year under the auspices of the Graduate Council...