Word: airing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Douglas Campbell '17, 1st Lt., Air Service...
...Lieutenant H. B. Willis '12, a member of the Lafayette Escadrille, is a prisoner in Germany, being captured at Verdun in August, 1917. He went to France as a member of an American ambulance unit, in which capacity he received the Croix de Guerre. He later entered the French air service as a member of the Lafayette Escadrille...
...program is unusually varied and interesting, including selections from the works of Beethoven, Handel, Mozart, Tschaikowski and Wagner. It is as follows: Symphony in F Minor, No. 4, Tschaikowski Aria, "II mio tesoro," from "Don Giovanni," Mozart "Good Friday Spell," from "Parsifal," Wagner Recitative, "Deeper and Deeper Still," and air, "Waft Her, Angels," from "Jeptha," Handel Overture, "Leonora," No. 3, Beethoven...
...report has come that the reprisals undertaken by the British air fleets on German cities have been of value in shaking confidence and nerves. While we must not imagine huge crowds dashing about in a state of terror, yet it is extremely probable that reprisals, undertaken on a people tired and keyed up, have been effective in weakening their morale and increasing their desire for peace. To the English, air raids are a matter of habit, and the defences are well organized and trainee through long practice. To the Germans they are comparatively new, and they cannot yet have obtained...
...life at these English colleges is nearly at a standstill; only a handful of wounded soldiers and physically unfit still work at their old tasks. Many of the colleges have quartered in them some kind of training corps, which change the old atmospheres of academic case to the modern air of military vigor. Apparently the old traditions have been lost forever. But we have the word of the Archbishop of York that in spite of this great change, there is no danger that when the war is over that students will not have the benefits of the long years that...