Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Greater Boston Chapter of the American Red Cross is making an effort to increase its membership to 25,000. It is desired to enroll at least a thousand students of the University, in the cause. For this purpose a committee has been appointed to canvass for members, consisting of the following...
Yale undergraduates are largely responsible for the formation of the First Aerial Coast Patrol of America which was organized in an effort to demonstrate the practicability of the coast defense plan of Admiral Robert E. Peary and John Hays Hammond, Jr. The patrol was organized early in July with 12 active members, ten of whom were from Yale. The members of the patrol learned how to operate machines in a very short time and pleased the naval authorities by their services in connection with the manoevures of the Atlantic feet off Sandy Hook. They clearly demonstrated that submarines beneath eighteen...
...profession. At the outbreak of the European. War his pioneer spirit of bravery and sacrifice led him to organize a little band of nine aviators. As the leader of these first volunteers he made an enviable record in serving a cause which he considered worthy of his every effort. No trial of physical courage or mental bravery dismayed this pioneer. He derived strength and encouragement from his utter devotion to an ideal...
...open places to play games and indulge in healthful recreation. The roughness of the sports and the evident enjoyment of the participants were noted with surprise by the staid and sober chroniclers of the time, and these old scholars were inclined to shake their heads at such fruitless effort. As the games seemed to give the young men a certain mental alertness, the scribes suggested in their writings that perhaps the sports should not be forbidden...
...outside world consider it "commeil faut" to discuss the policies of political parties. Many financiers, railroad magnates and money kings actually have strong political opinions and work earnestly for their respective parties. So the undergraduate need not feel that he is conspicuously different from others, if he makes an effort to be politically well informed. In fact the best educated citizens pride themselves on their knowledge of current politics. The feeling that a real gentleman should hold himself aloof from the vulgar activities of politics has disappeared long...