Word: existing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...days of college life as it used to be "when Father was in college in the good old '80's" have gone down in history as the time when Harvard stood alone in its glory, when "college spirit" did not exist and when the undergraduates watched Yale trample over the University and then came home happy because the best team won and because the men of Harvard were true sportsmen. Be that as it may, down in our hearts we know that in the last few years, that is to say, just before the war, the University...
...will try to have a place for them when they arrive. The Bureau will be ready to steer those who have been severely injured and may have to adopt new activities. It will be the work of the Bureau to make them acquainted with the new conditions which will exist here, and help them to get a good and prompt start at rebuilding...
...education they can, yet it is very doubtful if more students will be enrolled than at present. As a matter of fact, a continuous decrease is indicated in many ways; the likelihood of younger draftees, the increasing economy of money, and the experience of foreign universities. As war deficits exist already, and as they will surely grow no less under present conditions, every college is forced to adopt new methods of raising or keeping its funds...
...article by ex-President Taft in another column on this page states in a most convincing way the reasons which exist for backing up the work of Mr. Hoover as food conservator. We have in Mr. Hoover a man of most valuable experience abroad in a particular and most unusual kind of work which someone had to do here. We had in him a man not only of experience and ability, but one of the highest and most patriotic motives--a man above party animus or bias, above private interest, without concealments or prejudices. He patriotically assumed a most ungrateful...
...garments are lacking in many cases, and that much of the disease and especially of the pneumonia so prevalent in our camps is due entirely to inefficiency in supplying the men with the right kind of clothing at the right time. This state of affairs may and probably does exist in other cantonments, but Major-General Gorgas, the Surgeon-General of the Army, has only inspected four of the camps...