Word: canada
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...open tomorrow at Hanover and continue until Saturday evening. It is not expected that lack of snow will interfere with the events, and, as usual, ski-jumping will be the feature of the program. Interest in intercollegiate events has been greatly increased by the announcement that McGill University of Canada, Colgate, Middlebury and Williams will enter teams...
Lieutenant Jason Solon Hunt, Ph.B. (University of Vermont) '15, attached to the 27th Aero Squadron, A. E. F., who had been reported missing, has died of wounds received in action. Lieutenant Hunt entered the aviation service in July, 1917, at Toronto, Canada. He trained at Camp Borden and at Ft. Worth, Tex. He had attended one of the earlier Plattsburg camps. His home was in Johnson...
...collection includes a complete set of all the posters issued by the national organizations in this country, such as the Liberty Loan, Red Cross, Y. M. C. A., Army, Navy, Marines, Food and Fuel Administration, etc. Likewise, there are posters from France, England, Canada, Russia, Italy and Australia and other countries. There is a remarkable variety in the pictures, both in color and size...
...British Dominions contributed two outstanding figures in Hughes of Australia, and Borden of Canada. Premier Hughes, by means of his keen appreciation of the German menace in all its manifold phases, helped to sound more loudly everywhere the warning that civilization was in peril. Borden, grimly perservering in the single-minded purpose of winning the war, inspired the Empire with a deeper consecration to war duty. No statesman any where faced and mastered problems of greater complexity, and none held more consistently to the courage adopted in the very first moment of peril or caried through to more comprehensive realization...
...Guard and beat them back with terrific losses. It was at Ypres in April, 1915, that the First Canadian Division beat off the first gas attack and, in the words of General French, "saved the situation". Behind the city, under a grove of Canadian maples, lie six thousand of Canada's bravest sons, her first contribution in the Great War to the defence of the mother country. And now on the slopes about the shell-torn city stand England's own sons, gathered in the divisions of England's volunteer and conscript army. Commanders may debate the strategic value...