Word: englanders
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University stands first among New England colleges in the number of letter men in various sports who have enlisted in some branch of the national service, according to the figures given by The Dartmouth in a recent issue. The University leads with 58, Yale follows with 55, while 54 "D" men have enlisted from Dartmouth...
...willing and ready as all of the colleges have been to give their services in the present crisis, it is not stretching the truth to say that three New England institutions, Harvard, Yale and Technology, have perhaps most enjoyed the confidence of the Federal authorities. Each of these colleges has rendered a distinct service of the first importance, Harvard with its infantry R. O. T. C., Yale with its artillery corps, the only one of its kind in the country, and Tech. with its innumerable Government schools offering all sorts of training. In addition the faculties of all three institutions...
...Under our present system, at the close of the war, we will not have an army; nor will England and France, already drained by almost three and a half years of war, have one. Yet we have undertaken to free Belgium, Poland and Roumania and to become one of the members of a league to enforce peace. How can we enforce peace or bring about a lasting freedom for those countries if we do not have an adequate army? If we should adopt the Swiss system we would have a large citizen army which could be called into action...
...page a bit of war verse. Wisely governed by the rule that a poem should be given completely or not at all, the editor has collected the best of the shorter poems dealing with the war. Most of these are the work of American authors, but France, Belgium and England have each at least one representative. To name all the authors would be unprofitable, for the list is amazingly complete. Among them are Noyes, Mackaye, Brooke, van Dyke, Hagedorn, Service, Bourdillon, Seeger, Phillpotts, Woodberry, Cammaerts, Binyon, Masters, Eliot, Dole, Katherine Lee Bates, Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews and Edith Wharton...
Cambridge and Oxford Universities are planning to entertain American students engaged in war work who wish to spend their furloughs in England. As many soldiers will frequently cross the Channel to get away from trench life, these institutions offer the privileges of living and eating within their walls...