Word: lessing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Cross drive at the University is lagging in a disgraceful manner. A scant $2,000 is all that has been contributed in the last four days. Most of these donations have been in small amounts of five dollars or less; very few undergraduates have given to the full extent of their means...
...days of the Red Cross drive, a greater effort will be necessary from the University to enable it to present a large total subscription to the Second War Fund by the end of the week. At this rate the end of the drive will find the University total at less than $2,000. Although no quota has been set, it is hoped that a much greater sum will be given...
According to the new schedule the usual general courses in accounting, marketing and factory management will be retained in a more or less modified form, while special one-year courses in accounting, factory management and statistics will be offered for men who plan to enter some form of war service...
Princeton has seen far and deep in the conception of a new military curriculum which the college has now announced it will offer. In a sense of the word, I means nothing less than the creation of a second West Point, with certain additional advantages of access to the treasures of cultural learning which are at Princeton. At a time when no man can foresee either the full extent of the military demand which the present war will make upon the nation before it is done or the nature of the new problems which will come after it, this effort...
Scarcely has the Liberty Loan been subscribed but we are called upon again to give our money. The cause is no less just, no less necessary. The money spent in bonds goes to create great engines of destruction that shall shake the enemy and drive him back from the country he has ravaged; the money given to the Red Cross maintains a great organization that alleviates the suffering of our own soldiers and of the unfortunate civilians in this war zone...