Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...above plan of placing tablets inscribed with the names of the men who were killed, in their respective rooms, was proposed at a recent meeting of the Memorial Society, where it met with great approval. The names would be simply, but appropriately framed, in the same manner in which the names of all former occupants of the rooms in the Yard dormitories are at present by the Memorial Society...
Four thousand, nine hundred and twenty men of American universities have given their lives in the great war, of whom, the University, with 297, or nearly three per cent, of the teachers, graduates, and former and present students who took an active part in the great struggle, has lost a larger number than any other institution. The figures, which have just been compiled, are not complete, as men are still dying of wounds suffered or diseases contracted during the war. It is safe to say that the whole number of those who have been killed will be close...
...percentage of American college men who gave up their lives in the Civil War is much larger than that of those who made the great sacrifice in the present war, although the total number is much smaller. The University's percentage of 11.2 in the war of secession is more than eight per cent, greater than the present rate, but only 1,232 students took part in that struggle, of whom 138 died...
...Oxford men had enrolled by the middle of the war, and afterward the number was much greater; 1,412 had laid down their lives and 100 were missing. In the University of Cambridge, of 13,128 past and present ent members enrolled at one time, 1,405 made the great sacrifice and 212 were missing. It may be added that of the whole Cambridge enrollment at this time, no less than 1,945 had suffered wounds...
...contributions made by French students. No less than 259 professors of literature, science, medicine, and law of Paris or of the provincial universities gave up their lives, and the number of teachers, schoolmasters, and professors in the various schools and colleges of France who sacrificed all reaches the great total of 6,000. The University of Paris writes 634 names on its roll of honor