Word: gaining
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Though the main object of the men and women who go will be to relieve the sick and wounded, they will have an excellent opportunity to gain invaluable experience in surgical work. There are 400 beds in the American. Ambulance Hospital, and 150 of these will be under their charge. The remainder are attended to by Parisian surgeons. The University Unit will relieve the doctors and nurses from the Western Reserve Medical School of Cleveland, O., whose assignment closes on March 31., and the University group will be succeeded by a unit from the University of Chicago, the University...
...contrary, he should feel called upon to analyze the causes which lead to war and then play as active a part as possible for their prevention in the future. Wars arise today either because one nation holds to the fallacious notion that it can secure some positive gain by defeating some other power, or else because it believes such an opinion is held towards...
...same time one of the saddest and yet most encouraging features of the present war is the entire lack of any definite opinion on the part of the masses of the people concerned as to what the causes of the war are or what they as individuals will ever gain. Undoubtedly some mis-educated leaders on both sides have had aggressive desires; all who have come from the warring countries are agreed that to the people it is a war of self-defence...
...boys take athletics less seriously and participate i them less strenuously. Dr. Morse, although his conclusions about the harmful effects of athletic specialization are undoubtedly logical, will probably find that his words fall on deaf ears as long as a man of mediocre mentality and limited social graces can gain popularity and preferment in the University by virtue of a reputation for athletic ability gained in a preparatory school. He criticizes preparatory schools for angling for good athletes, (or trying to develop them at the expense of their mental and physical health). The same criticism applies with even greater force...
Although several appeals have been made to the artistic members of the Senior class to submit designs for the book-plate of the Class Album, as yet there has been only one response. Consequently there is an excellent opportunity for a talented member to serve the class and gain its lasting gratitude by handing in a first class design at Matthews 5 on or before March...