Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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During this week gifts are being made all-over the country toward a million fund which is to insure the provision of well equipped libraries in all the cantonments and training camps in this country, and the furnishing of books to American troops in the field and to the sick and wounded in hospitals...
This affects the daily welfare of over two thousand Harvard men now in service. Will not Harvard men here in Cambridge give liberally with this in mind? The American Library Association has the management of all the work; sites are already set aside for the buildings, and the architects' plans are complete so that work can begin the moment the money is in hand...
...Briggs, whose face is familiar to most of us in the delivery room here, is now in France on Leave of absence. He is in the service of the Y. M. C. A., and he is also the representative in France of the American Library Association, so that he will probably direct the supply and distribution of books there...
...thousand copies of each issue will be given to the Red Cross, and thereby distributed to the fighting forces at the front. Following the example of many of the leading American publications, the Lampoon is asking each subscriber to forward his copy to the soldiers and sailors. Moreover, a one-cent stamp is placed on each number before distribution, so that the reader has only to drop his copy in a mail-box to be sure that it will reach the military forces...
...University of Oxford, England, for a period of three years. Competitors must be citizens of the United States, between 19 and 25 years of age, and must, before the date of entry on residence at Oxford, have completed at least their second year at some regular degree-granting American university or college. Candidates having their domicile in the State and those who have received any large part of their education there are alike eligible...