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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Scarcely has the Liberty Loan been subscribed but we are called upon again to give our money. The cause is no less just, no less necessary. The money spent in bonds goes to create great engines of destruction that shall shake the enemy and drive him back from the country he has ravaged; the money given to the Red Cross maintains a great organization that alleviates the suffering of our own soldiers and of the unfortunate civilians in this war zone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RED CROSS CALLS AGAIN | 5/16/1918 | See Source »

Though the American people have subscribed most generously to the Liberty Loan they cannot sit back and say they have done enough. The demands of the war have only begun to be felt here. When we look at the civilians of France and England we can see that their gifts of time, energy and money have been increasing steadily in spite of the pressure of war. We must not be behind them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RED CROSS CALLS AGAIN | 5/16/1918 | See Source »

...Knights of Columbus, can handle: neither State nor City can do it, only the Government can. For it means war measures, taking land, fixing prices, and holding them, preventing land-speculation and every other form of robbery and injustice which in the end comes back on labor; it means building houses, schools, hospitals, theatres and churches; giving its workers as it gives its fighters the best conditions possible for the special job they have to do. The Government has at last set up the agency to do this, and put good men in charge. Let every...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 5/14/1918 | See Source »

Smith.--1, Bring Back My Bonnie. 2, Football Marches. 3, Keep Your Head Down, Allemand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TENTATIVE PROGRAM FOR 1921 JUBILEE ANNOUNCED | 5/14/1918 | See Source »

...seventh, two more scores resulted. Holmes again hit safely, stealing second shortly after. A Texas leaguer back of second by Prann, which L. B. Evans '20, in centre field, let slip, allowed Holmes to score. A fielder's choice placed Prann on third, from which he reached home when Gordon's grounder passed through J. G. Coolidge '20, at first base. Lyman, the Yale captain, scored the final tally in the eighth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY NINE LOST TO SUPERIOR ELI TEAM | 5/13/1918 | See Source »

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