Word: giving
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...those men who are in the active service of their country. A word of consolation may be given, in addition to undergraduates, who, unable to serve their country for at least the present, must be satisfied with the daily routine of college work. It is difficult to give up one's time and perhaps life to the hardships of active warfare. It is equally difficult, however, to attend lectures on Indic Philology or to discuss the embryology of vertebrates with the Germans driving on Amiens. The man in college today is serving a hard apprenticeship in the schools of patience...
...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 Way for an eve of celebration. Those days are but blissful memories; the Princeton games fortunately go on but without the old glamor...
...American Expeditionary Force could be heard there would be no doubt concerning the response of the United States to the second war fund campaign. The terrors of battle are decreased and the horrors it entails are minimized by this greatest of relief agencies. No support which the American people give to it will be misconceived or misdirected...
...these shortcomings have been condoned by the War Department on the theory that there would be time enough in France to give our officers the training they require. It was upon this understanding that last year's Government school for commissioned officers, conducted at Harvard at the close of the R. O. T. C. session, and by all odds the best of its kind ever held in this country, was abandoned after only one lot of 550 of our officers, old and young, had received instruction in it. Now we know that there is no mind on earth capable...
...that no one could go to Plattsburg without taking these early examinations, and for a time the affair was thought settled. Now the whole question has been reopened, owing to the lassitude of some colleges in sending their men, and at the last minute it will be necessary to give still another set of special finals...