Word: englanders
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...subject of Mr. Eddy's talk has not been announced, but it will probably touch upon the war. During last year, Mr. Eddy traveled through France and England, visiting the various Y. M. C. A. huts at cantonments and at the front. When he spoke before an audience of Freshmen in the Smith Hall Common Room earlier this fall, he described the work being carried on by the Y. M. C. A. "over there...
...colleges and universities that started the movement for the union were New England institutions and fully a score of our New England institutions are now identified with it. First, there is a home for college men passing through Paris or on furlough there; second, a headquarters for the bureaus of the individual colleges, many of which have representatives on the ground; third, it is a clearing house for information as to casualties, etc. On the first night that the Union opened in October the representatives of 30 colleges took rooms there. In the first three weeks men had registered from...
Thirty colleges and universities have already pledged their support to the movement and new institutions are daily being added to the list. Alumni associations of New England have been quick to endorse the plan as a patriotic substitute for the usual mid-winter banquet...
...College of Cambridge University, from which John Harvard was graduated, will extend its hospitality to members of the University on military service abroad. A letter received by President Lowell from Master P. Giles of the English university, states that arrangements are being made at many of the colleges of England to provide for the American officers who desire to spend some part of their short leaves at Cambridge and Oxford. "We are proposing in Emmanuel," the letter says, "to set apart for the use of American officers six sets of rooms, and if it can be managed, we should like...
This sort of treatment of a deserving public servant is either very short-sighted policy or else it is a deliberate service to the enemy. Mr. Taft is well within the truth when he says that food conservation here, and the sparing of food supplies for Italy, France and England, is the only effective means that we have at this moment of fighting the common enemy. In treating as an enemy the man who has under his command this little fight of ours with wheat and corn and meat and sugar, the senators are in simple fact weakening our allies...