Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from finished. To be sure, there is nothing unique in what is happening here in Cambridge. Throughout the nation our college empty so that our armies may grow in strength. Throughout the nation able-bodies young men of eighteen and nineteen years of age are being called to join the armed forces already fighting on many fronts and on many seas. For more than a year now every day has witnessed an increasing impact of the war on academic life. You have watched a college devoted to the arts of peace being transformed into an establishment primarily concerned with...
Throughout the fall students have been dropping out at an average rate of about 30 a week to join the armed forces, and the 18-19 draft and Enlisted Reserve call are the new factors which will cause the big drain next month. College will have almost twice as many Freshmen and Sophomores as Juniors and Seniors after the Great Exodus...
...Sullivan '43 will deliver the Class Oration, and John L. Hoffman '43 will give the Class Poem. Selections by the Glee Club are planned as the next number on the program, to be followed by the Ivy Oration, presented by Joseph C. Scott '43. The assembled students are to join in singing the Ode, written by Eric Larrabee '43, with George R. Clay '43 the Chorister, conducting to close the afternoon...
...deserted Chang Tso-lin to join with Wu Pei-fu, war lord rival of Chang Tso-lin. He rejoined Chang Tso-lin and served as Minister of War at Peking. As control changed, he went back to Wu and served as Minister of Industry in Wu's Cabinet. Before the year was out he deserted Wu, made peace again with Chang Tso-lin and became governor of the Harbin district in Manchuria. He was there when Chiang Kai-shek marched into Nanking and consolidated his Nationalist Government. Most of the other war lords joined Chiang then. But not Chang...
...racing. Since October she had been in the Coast Guard's offshore patrol, hunting subs. Skipper Curtis Arnall in civilian life was a radio actor and well-known yachtsman; his mate, 33-year-old Joseph Choate, left a job at New York's Guaranty Trust Co. to join the Coast Guard; none of the 3070's crew had had more than a few months in the service. The 3070 was not designed for this kind of work. Over the wireless telephone, which was petering out, the 3070 called for help...