Word: haven
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...dignified and stolidly established order of things is being torn to little shred a while we look on and yaw. There are some men in college, some men in their third year in Harvard College, who haven't much idea what it is all about, and are really quite bored with the whole affair. In a spirit of all brotherhood we advise such men not to attempt to enter the editorial competition...
Captain Dupont will thus assist Captain Overton, U. S. A., retired, who also was stationed with the University corps this summer and is now professor of military science and tactics at New Haven on appointment by the War Department. Besides Captain Dupont two captains of Canadian Field Artillery have been detailed to aid in the training of the Yale Battery. The guns for this training have been promised by the French government, and it is reported that they have already arrived in this country. They were secured through the efforts of M. Tardieu and Colonel Claudon...
...reports New England has so far subscribed not much more than sixty per cent of her estimated contribution to the national loan. Of course in such matters it is small use to blame anybody, since the only people who mind are those who have done their share. Those that haven't won't, not for the words of editors, nor for the words of bankers, nor for the words of a Cicero in the mouth of a Demosthenes inspired by a Delphic oracle and addressed to the salvation of his country...
...Either the camp is going to continue in practical conformation to original schedule or not. If it is, they have nothing to worry about, for they will get what they expected. If it isn't they have either learned a great deal which is of unforgettable value, or they haven't. If they have, they have nothing to worry about, for they are the possessors of wisdom. If they haven't, they are incontestably stupid, and would learn nothing from Hindenburg, Brusiloff, and Petain conducting a seminar...
...subscription of $100,000 to the Liberty Loan from Yale University was announced by President Hadley at a mass meeting held at New Haven to open the campaign there. Professor William Howard Taft presided, and speeches were delivered by President Hadley, William P. Gould Harding, Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, and Secretary Wilson of the present Cabinet. The speakers did not devote all their time to explaining the nature of the loan and its terms, but laid emphasis on the patriotic spirit which must be displayed...