Word: battlefronts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Captain William John Bingham '16, of Methuen, has been awarded the French War Cross for heroism at the battlefront in the closing days of the war and has received the personal thanks of the general of his division for the part he took in the October fighting. Captain Bingham was very prominent in College affairs, being president of the Phillips Brooks House and the Exeter Club, First Marshal of his class, leader of the Glee Club, captain of the 1916 track team, and a member of the Nominating and Athletic Committees...
...well? There are no fixed limits between applied science and engineering if the latter term is broadly construed. The chemical expert may not call himself an engineer but in these days of chlorine gas, thermite bombs and other such instruments of carnage he is quite as indispensable on the battlefront as the builder of roads and bridges. All applied science, moreover, depends on pure science. It is in this latter field that the pioneering of research must be done. If we neglect pure science we shall in time have no science to apply. Any impairment of this country's present...
...character of the University of Toronto. Last year, the students were engaged in the usual college activities, dallying with lessons and athletics; now they are engrossed entirely in the war and things military. Three-fourths of the news published in the daily undergraduate paper pertains to the European battlefront and eulogies on peace. A commissioned lieutenant is military editor of the paper. Intercollegiate athletics have been officially abandoned by a decree of the university's athletic directorate. Over one thousand graduates and undergraduates of the University of Toronto are now enlisted with the Allies, and more are continually joining...