Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Jean Petit," by Phillip C. Lewis '17, is an anecdote of ambulance work and of a brave young Frenchman. "War in the Home" satirizes, all too gently, a frivolous American family; and "The Road to Victory," by James Gore King '20, goes back to France, and makes a vision of Napoleon inspire Gen. Petain. It is far from sure that Napoleon deserves so much credit...
Cables and letters received from Paris announce that the American University Union in Europe for American college men and their friends in war service will open tomorrow with the Royal Palace open tomorrow with the Royal Palace Hotel as its headquarters. The hotel, which has eighty bed rooms and forty baths, is centrally located on the corner of the Place de Theatre Francais and the Rue de Richelieu. It has been rented for a year by the Union and will be the centre for all American College men in Paris. Files of the leading American magazines, periodicals and newspapers will...
...first number of the Harvard Advocate marks an entirely new departure in the policy of that paper. Not only has it changed from a fortnightly to a monthly periodical, and adopted a new form, similar to that of the North American and Yale Reviews, but has doubled the amount of its printed matter. Heretofore the competition with the Monthly, instead of improving the two papers, had the opposite effect, as not infrequently both were forced to sacrifice the quality of their articles to make up the needed quantity. There was not enough literary activity of the first order in college...
...members of the French war commission for their aid in getting a battery of seventy-five millimeter guns for use of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps at Yale. It had been feared that no guns at all would be available, since the War Department had said that no American pieces could be spared...
...American public is not responding to the Second Liberty Loan to the extent asked by the Government. Of the sum of five billion dollars called for, only one-tenth has been subscribed in half the time allotted. Five billion seems a tremendous sum until we remember that only last February, England, with a population and a national wealth less than one half our own, and weakened by two and a half years of war, cheerfully subscribed to an even greater sum. The average American has not yet reached that point of patriotism where he will invest all his savings...