Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...work on the problem. The war taught France that education has passed from a luxury into a necessity. When early in the war, thousands of our officers were killed, we were forced to call on men from civil life and, naturally those best educated, best filled the gap...
...training tables have attracted so many football men that the membership of the club predominates with members of the football squad. From the sentiment expressed by the undergraduates in regard to the need and advantages of such a club, the Executive Committee feels that it is filling a big gap in the undergraduate life and hopes that in the future even greater advantages and possibilities for its usefulness will be presented. In addition to a lounging room and training table for upperclassmen, the Freshmen have theirs, also, so that all undergraduates are represented in the "Y" Club...
Most conspicuous of all the defects in American journalism has been the lack of a good sane weekly journal of politics and general discussion. The "Nation" and the "New Republic" in turn threatened to fill the gap, wavered, and finally degenerated into radical slander out of which it is now difficult to discover any real constructive criticism...
...University, will be a business meeting as much as a social gathering. It is only at such affairs that a class can discuss matters of common interest, launch its plans, and find exactly where it stands. And if the present Senior Class, the only class which has bridged the gap from peace times to peace times, does not revive the traditions to be discussed this evening, more than one Harvard custom will be thrown into the discard because of the war. Primarily there is Class Day and Commencement Week; no other class now in College has seen those festivities except...
Lieutenant Murray's citation follows: "For extraordinary heroism in action near Mezy, France, June 15, 1918. On this day Lieutenant Murray alone attacked an enemy observation post held by ten of the enemy. He later organized a detachment of scattered men and filled a gap in our lines...