Word: backed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...court, courts, home for dependents, prisons, organizations for the study of social conditions and the improvement of these conditions. Our success in the great struggle in which we have entered calls for a mobilization of the brains of the nation. If civilization is to profit, and not be set back by this conflict, we must be prepared to secure an even more effective mobilization of brains in time of peace...
Elaborate plans for reunion festivities have been greatly cut down because of the war. Only the simplest sort of dinners and meetings are to be held, even those classes which are celebrating their important reunions. 1892, which will be back for its 25th, has decided that "owing to the fact that the country is seriously preparing for war, it has seemed to the Class Committee inappropriate to hold an elaborate or expensive celebration." The Secretary of 1897 writes that "the conclusion reached by the Class Committee that the 20th Reunion be reduced to the minimum of expense and effort...
...With the entry of the United States into the war, it is probable that many members of your University Boat Club will at some time be visiting this country on their way to or back from the fighting line...
After a final consultation with Governor Edge, who is just back from Washington, President Hibben of Princeton announced the plans for the New Jersey State military camp, which is to be established in Princeton this summer. Principal interest centres in the fact that the War Department has decided to recognize the camp as furnishing valuable preliminary training for the series of Government training camps to be opened later, as well as for those subject to draft, and, that a regular army officer, retired, will be detailed as camp commandant...
This we may know, that future generations, looking back on the second decade of the twentieth century, will have no difficulty in denoting by word this war, the agonizing, the terrible, and the sublime...