Word: exodus
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...France and England. In addition to the benefits derived from these institutions by the army, the countries in which the schools are established receive the advantage of the educational stimulus of foreign blood and foreign blood and foreign ideas. A pertinent manifestation of the international education is the exodus of soldiers of the American army to the college from which John Harvard came, for already many men who have had two years of American college experience have permanently enrolled in Emanuel College in England...
Class Day Week is to assume the proportions which characterized this celebration before the ascendency of Mars. With the general exodus of undergraduates and the continual drain upon the College's resources by war needs, it has for two years been but the "shealed peascod" of former glory. But already the Class of 1919 is planning memorable festivities for this June...
...University is deeply sensible of the significant honor accorded it by the large and ever increasing number of the faculty who are engaged in the many ramifications of war work at the request of the Government. As the exodus of professors goes steadily on, however, the graduates and undergraduates of the University are commencing to wonder with dismay when the drain upon the teaching staff is to end. A glance at the pamphlet of courses, with its "omitted in 1918-19" extending over page after page in almost unbroken sequence, shows to what a great degree the faculty is depleted...
This continuing exodus of professors is in direct contrast to the large and growing number of students back in College this term. It is a disappointment to the latter to find so many desirable courses, once taught by professors, given by men of lower rank and less experience due to the absence of the former. After the free and willing sacrifices which all connected with the University have made during the war surely it cannot be unreasonably selfish to regard the continued depletion of the faculty as the over doing of a good thing. Some consideration should be given...
...days of the college exodus to Princeton are no more; the war has made intercollegiate games merely an incident in the curriculum of a college year in the stead of an important event for which the entire undergraduate body used to plan many weeks in advance. The last time the college went to Princeton in any numbers was in the fall of 1915 to watch Mahan's team give the Palmer Stadium its baptism of Harvard football. Five hundred undergraduates filled the flagship of the Fall River Fleet for one sleepless night and then enjoyed the Great White...