Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...army is a citizen army. It is composed of our brothers, our cousins and our sons. Nothing like it has been seen in America even in the days of '61, for at that time the volunteer system alone determined the service. The American Army in France is ourselves in khaki. All classes are represented. It is entirely democratic in its personnel and in its spirit. It is an army to be proud of and to be cared for. It is far from home and it will not be strange if many of the boys become homesick-especially if the winter...
...lighten this gloomy routine, to maintain a close and hearty interest in this body of American citizens detailed for special duty, to support them not merely with munitions of war but with those supplies in which we can put pure admiration, our gratitude and our love, is our duty-a duty which we should grasp as a privilege. Our men will be none the less warriors because we remember them with letters and gifts. They are carrying our burdens, upholding our honor-and I for one desire to express as best I can the deep personal obligation...
Arthur Woods '92, former police commissioner of New York under Mayor Mitchel, is to begin soon a campaign of American propaganda in European countries, including Germany and Austria. For the present, the campaign will be carried on from Washington, but later Mr. Woods may leave for Europe...
...University has just made arrangements whereby those students who formerly at Foxcroft may now be accommodated at Memorial Hall. Meals at the latter will be served on the American plan at 25 cents each, but members of the University will be charged only for the number of meals eaten...
Plans are being negotiated by the officers of the American University Union and a committee of professors of the University of Paris to commemorate the entrance of the American college into the war by a solemn festival to be held in the large amphitheatre of the Sorbonne on February 24. This affair is only one of the many manifestations of French interest in the new institution...