Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University has done its part in facilitating transition to normal college life by allowing the immediate entrance of men into regular courses. Hence, it is the duty of the military authorities to do their share in bridging the gap, by relaxing discipline as much as possible where a conflict with the best interests of the regular college work occurs...
...sentiment and interest of the German soldiers. Be that as it may, troops who have been battling offensively for four years cannot fight with the same spirit and the same courage when they know that victory has become impossible and that they must remain to the end of the conflict with their backs to the wall...
...brought many changes in the daily life of the people. The college undergraduate has been equally affected and moves in a sphere unknown to the peaceful days of previous years. He has curtailed almost all activities which have no direct hearing on the present conflict. Old customs which had become Harvard's sacred traditions have passed out of existence. All this the undergraduate gladly accepts, knowing it to be the inevitable. Yet there is a danger that war hysteria may drive Americans to measures which are not marked by necessity. It is this consideration which demands reflection on the decision...
Then came this present conflict, and with it casualty lists containing names with less historical interest for us. Our friends and our kin have spilled their blood in France. Our pain and anguish is now personal; it is our very own. The lists have been growing and growing until the number of Harvard men who have given their lives has swelled to eighty. And thus we find that Memorial Day has a meaning for us after all, that its purpose is a splendid one, that we welcome this occasion to hold corporate honor for all our brave defenders, but especially...
During the extent of the present conflict it is entirely fitting and proper that we should discuss and constructively criticize all important and many unimportant issues. Free speech is a glorious privilege, but the more we talk the more we must read. For the college man, it is a crime to be uninformed, a dark sin to be misinformed. Brains will win the war! Don't waste yours. The Pennsylvanian...