Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...exacted from the ranks of University graduates and undergraduates a heavier toll during the past winter than it did throughout the first six months following the entrance of the United States into the European conflict. The University War Record Office announces that since October the list of casualties among the University's men engaged in active service contains 12 deaths, as compared with 10 in the months from April 6 through September and 36 before the declaration of war by the United States. This brings the losses of University men since August, 1914, to a total...
...University's announcement of a summer camp, the War Department has brought before the General Staff a plan by which all college R. O. T. C. men would spend a month as privates in the National Army. In its present form this plan would not have to conflict with the summer camp of the college R. O. T. C.'s as the men would be sent to the cantonments only from June 1 to July 1. The University's plans, at any rate, would not be in vain. If the General Staff passes this measure, it will be of great...
...most important thing that the country can learn at this time touching the world situation is the fact, the actual fact, the stern fact, that we are engaged in war. We are so far removed from the conflict, there is so little suffering about us, so little that speaks of war, that the mind can hardly grasp the fact that the Nation is mobilizing with tremendous rapidity its entire strength for the supreme effort ahead of it, and that those in authority realize that this strength in the fullest is going to be needed. The people...
...hope to learn to do better by experience, constant effort and openness of mind. It is well that the war should direct increased attention to these questions, should provoke us to take our bearings afresh, and consider our courses anew; but the conditions brought about by our entering the conflict are not the best cause the conditions are abnormal and the results obtained by trying something new are not certainly those that would occur in time of peace...
...vast resources of Russia are at her disposal, and victory by attrition, much heralded in 1915, seems more distant than ever. In spite of three years of losses greater armies will face each other across the trench lines of the Western front this spring than ever before in the conflict...