Word: lessing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...more--a day of freedom from routine without special meaning. For the younger generation's interest in the Civil War is historical rather than personal and our honor for the dead who gave up their lives in that struggle was so taken for granted that each year saw less and less deep feeling within us. We honored those heroes of '61, but we did it subconsciously and with little appreciation of the hell they had been through...
...University Red Cross drive for the second War Fund of $100,000,000 closed last evening with $4,481.70 collected during the week. On Saturday morning less than $2,500 had been subscribed, but several large subscriptions increased the totals to their present figures...
...their jesting way the men of service have expressed a basic truth which we all must come to realize sooner or later. The war will be long and the war will be hard. There is but one way to shorten the conflict or make the task set before us less difficult. We must prepare...
...special groups of names in commencement programs and college catalogues. The Bulletin has been in sympathy with the Harvard authorities in the position they have taken, that academic work is one thing and military service quite another, and that the same recognition is not appropriate to both. Far less formal than any of the usual tokens by which the colleges have expressed, or proposed to express, their appreciation of what their sons have done in the war is a plan of recognition pursued by the University of Minnesota...
...time for the close of the Undergraduate Red Cross Drive in the University has been extended to Monday evening. Every effort is being made to bring the total up to $6,000, today and Monday. As yet less than $2,500 has been collected and much more is needed in order to make the drive a success. Yesterday's totals follow...