Word: april
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...April...
Parade of Regiment and Band, Tuesday, April 23rd. You will report at 2.15 at Weld...
...first flush of patriotic ardor which swept through our colleges last April has passed away and perhaps we should rejoice to be rid of its less reasonable manifestations. But in this cooler, grimmer April of 1918 we must not forget its essential spirit. Indeed, the fact that every patriotic individual has a part to play in the war is far more apparent in the thirteenth month after our entry than it was in the first. Then the French were wresting the Chemin des Dames heights from the Germans, the British were driving the enemy at Arras, while revolutionized Russia...
These facts dismay no one, but they challenge every man to reconsecrate himself to personal service as he did in April, 1917. Let no one give the first place in his thoughts to an after the-war future or after-the-war reconstruction until he is absolutely assured that he is doing his part in during the war service to insure the existence of an after-the-war civilization to exploit or rebuild. Our immediate and all-obscuring national aim is victory, and no man with talents to assist in its consummation can be absolved from the duty of direct...
...United States Treasury Department could not have better planned the time for floating the Third Liberty Loan, so far as the University is concerned. The early stages of our campaign were held during the first part of April, a time when checks for the current months were not completely made over to persistent creditors. Then followed a week of much needed rest. And now the undergraduates return from their homes with numerous pecuniary gifts from their families, for vacation seems to be a giving time. Thus the final week of the University drive, which starts to-day, finds students with...