Word: aid
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...room and arrangements have been made for placing athletic facilities at the disposal of members in Paris on furlough. The University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale, Princeton, the University of Virginia, Columbia and the University of Michigan have already taken steps to provide bureaus in this Union to aid their own graduates, while the general officers of the Union will do all in their power for college men from institutions that have not started separate bureaus...
Plans are now being formed for the establishment of a room in one of the University buildings, where members of the R. O. T. C. who are desirous of becoming more familiar with the French language as an aid to their military work, may get a practical knowledge of the subject...
...sacrifices it must make. Winter is coming on; food and fuel are unusually scarce; prices are rising; casualty lists may soon be published. The demands upon our time and money have greatly increased; it is absolutely essential that we contribute liberally to the many forms of war aid and that we loan to the government, through the purchase of Liberty Bonds all the capital for which it asks...
...shoe begins to pinch, certain factors should be held in mind. France has been unbelieveably bled, and is probably continuing to fight chiefly because of our entrance into the war. But until next spring aid from the United States is more likely to be potential than effective, and therefore much depends upon our attitude and our actions until that time. If France can rely upon us to put ourselves unreservedly into the conflict at the earliest possible moment she will continue to fight...
...preventing the formation of a Mitteleuropa. Casualty lists and the first complaints at heavy taxes will deaden our interest in a possibly far-distant victory. Yet whether we believe in a military decision, or in a peace without victory as the solution of the war, we must make our aid to the Allies as effective as possible now. It is only by holding to our original objects in entering the war that we can prevent the natural feeling or a lessened enthusiasm, and come safely through the critical period of the coming months...