Word: belgian
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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That America will compete in the Olympic games to be held at Antwerp, Belgium, in August, 1920, was decided at a recent dinner held at the New York Athletic Club when the American Olympic Committee conferred with Colonel Osterreith, Belgian Director-General of Sports...
...citations and decorations have been awarded to Princeton men during the war; 22 decorations were won by men who graduates before 1900, while the class of 1919 had eleven who were either decorated or cited. Of these decorations and citations, 79 were American, 180 French, 18 British, 16 Belgian, 17 Italian, four Greek and one Montenegrin...
Professor Albert Edward Janssen, of the University of Louvain and a member of the Belgian Mission, yesterday made a tour of inspection over the University. The visiting commissioner was particularly anxious to get acquainted with the methods of instruction in the Department of Economics...
...invited to a Red Cross mass meeting to be held in the New Lecture Hall tonight at 8 o'clock, where Colonel John Van Schaick, Jr., will be the principal speaker. Colonel Van Schaick represented the Rockefeller Foundation War Relief Commission in Holland, and was later engaged in Belgian relief work and Red Cross activities in France, Italy and Belgium...
...prove to me that you protested against the burning of the Library at Louvain, and that you endeavored to secure protection and such treatment as you now request for the professors of the universities in the Belgian and French territory occupied by the Germans, then I will exert any influence that I may possess to procure the return of your personal scientific property...