Word: kept
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...important," said Mr. Willard, "to mobilize the industrial, agricultural, transportation and labor resources of the country as well as the military and naval forces. Our Allies must be kept supplied with food, munitions and all the materials essential to our common success. To accomplish this, serious transportation problems by land and water must be solved. One of the most serious problems confronting us is the threatened shortage of foodstuffs. Owing to the failure of the winter wheat crop, one-third of which is ruined, we probably will not even be able to raise the six and one-half bushels...
...Sargent's article, hidden away among the advertisements, is preparation for war. The few normal activities of College life worth recording, such as the taking of the Senior picture and the election of the hockey captain, are relegated to inconspicuous back pages, just as they are kept far in the back of the undergraduate mind. It is unfortunate, however, that such irrelevant pictures of those of the Yale crew in its tank and water polo at Yale should be placed in a more conspicuous position than that or our newly-elected hockey captain. We may welcome pictures, even...
...weeks of confusion have ended in well organized military units there will be a desire on the part of the men to play ball and now in their spare time, he is making every arrangement to provide for their exercise. At least one of the boat houses will be kept open and Soldiers Field will of course be available...
There is also the likelihood that the members of the R. O. T. C. will not have to give up their College work at once and devote themselves exclusively to military training. General Wood has strongly urged that the men in the Reserve Corps be kept in College as long as possible. While the final decision rests with the War Department and the University authorities, the probability that College work will not be interrupted is strong enough to justify the undergraduates' spending the full amount of time on their regular studies...
...national freedom, for the freedom of the high seas, for the freedom of the Lone Star State, for the freedom of the slaves, for the freedom of tyrannized Cuba. We go to war now for the freedom of the German people. We are true to our history. We have kept our national faith in freedom. We go to war for a cause no less just...