Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...this year with Major General William A. Pew, M. N. G., retired, as its superintendent. General Pew showed a rather unusual ability to attract to his aid officers, including especially foreign officers, capable of giving competently modernized instruction, and it may be hoped that he will succeed in this effort again. Whether it be in the famous trenches at Fresh Pond, or in the trench system and wide manoeuvre fields available at Williamstown, here are opportunities in the coming summer which no college man should miss if he yet has hope of performing an officer's service. Boston Transcript
...campaign, which has given us little time for other things. Is the present state of mind one of unjustified confidence? By no means, Hard tests still confront the Allied armies; but the fact that refuses to be explained away is that in the seventh week of Germany's supreme effort the German army stands still and newspapers are beginning to explain things to the people at home.--NEW YORK EVENING POST...
...which, if it should succeed in gaining and holding important objectives, would shorten the war. The only end of the war, as they see it, is the crushing of German military power to such a degree that a victory of civilization will be scored against a German effort at conquest and the lesson taught that in the twentieth century wars for conquest planned, timed and inaugurated for the aggrandizement of emperors or empires do not pay as they often did between the periods of Alexander the Great and Napoleon; the lesson that civilization virtually is a union of righteousness dominated...
...this total the Sophomores subscribed $2,600, while the Junior and Freshman classes handed in sums of $200 and $50 respectively. Contrary to the hopes of the Liberty Loan Committee, the class of 1918 did not add to its former purchases in an effort to fulfill its quota...
...afternoon the usual program of recreation will be carried out, with baseball, tennis and other sports. The success of last year's effort to organize the recreational activities so that all the delegates might participate was so marked that special emphasis will again be laid on this part of the program...