Word: goings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...informal fencing team will have their first meet of the year tomorrow when they will go to New York to compete for the Manrique Cup at the Brooklyn Y. M. C. A. The competition is open to any university team or fencing club in the United States, and the cup which is awarded to the winning team is offered by the Brooklyn division of the Amateur Fencing League of America. Last year it was won by the New York Athletic Club. As yet the complete list of entries has not been announced, but it is expected that fencing clubs...
...past it has been the custom of the University to appoint three exchange professors, one to go to the West, another to France, and the third to Germany. There has been, however, no exchange professor to Germany for several years. The University's representative to the Western colleges is appointed to give a course of lectures at each of several institutions in the West. Professor Schofield plans this year to visit Knox, Beloit, Carleton, Grinnell and Colorado Colleges, in the order named...
...every precaution, the Germans were able to wreck the engines of these steamers. The Kaiser believed that none of these boats would all under the Stars and Stripes for many a year. He had not reckoned on our engineers. In a short time the German liners were ready to go to sea, the Vaterland was taken on a trip to the Panama Canal and was overhauled there, and now the entire repatriated fleet has landed its thousands of troops in France...
...chance to see things has been excellent. 'Seeing' balls one all up, too. Though in a way also it makes everything--that is, just living--seem simpler and untroubled by all the old petty details. It is torture to see all this magnificent energy and sacrifice going for a cause which is itself only a means, and such a foolish, illogical means, than which, no one, as yet, sees a better--to an end which is vague and so far away that most hereabouts lose sight of it. Perhaps it is as well. For I don't believe the Poilu...
...recuperate. There is talk of work again, and lots of it, in about ten days. There are American soldiers within 20 kilometres;--a young lieutenant visited us yesterday and dined with us today. It seems hard to realize that all about us here are Americans, preparing to go down and face the thunder and flame that we have heard all around and over...