Word: appealed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...hard work, all this is no more than what our boys are joyfully, cheerfully giving in camp and at the front. But Uncle Sam is doing everything in his power to make life wholesome and clean for these boys and the country has responded with unexampled generosity to every appeal. This is splendid and what it should...
There are on hand a number of pictures showing the work of the R. O. T. C. but the greatest need is for pictures of the Harvard Regiment during the winter of 1915-16. May I appeal to your readers for any such prints as they may own? They may be sent to me at 5 University Hall. All sorts of pictures, no matter how informal, will be gratefully received. ROGER PIERCE '04, Secretary to the Corporation...
...Lakes. His quick, decisive thrusts like his famous flanking attack on the Marne, are a match for the ponderous strokes of Hindenburg. His reserve army rushed swiftly into place at the Yser, saved the Channel ports. Though Foch is noted chiefly for his boldness and speed and striking personal appeal, his policy is always sound: Joffre has called him the greatest strategist in Europe...
This week a nation-wide appeal is being made for contributions of books for war libraries for men in service at home and abroad. More than a million books will be required to supply camps, barracks, transports and hospitals with plenty of readable books. Fiction, biography, history, travel, poetry, and almost any form of literature will be welcome. Contributions will be supplemented by generous purchases, especially in scientific and technical lines...
...truth that the stimulus of war interest is the very factor that has depressed students' industry in the other subjects. And yet what was the real nature of the ardent request filed by the Yale News, if its editors could only have known it? It was in fact an appeal for a Short-Cut to Knowledge. As wiser heads know, there is no such detour. The path of the regular curriculum is the one highway leading to the real Castle of Comprehension, if it leads anywhere at all. The students say they want the road. Cannot they be made...