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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...regiments of the Prussian Guard and beat them back with terrific losses. It was at Ypres in April, 1915, that the First Canadian Division beat off the first gas attack and, in the words of General French, "saved the situation". Behind the city, under a grove of Canadian maples, lie six thousand of Canada's bravest sons, her first contribution in the Great War to the defence of the mother country. And now on the slopes about the shell-torn city stand England's own sons, gathered in the divisions of England's volunteer and conscript army. Commanders may debate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DEFENCE OF YPRES | 5/1/1918 | See Source »

...often misunderstood by the undergraduate to mean the bare knowledge of the contents of the books that are read and the assimilation of the facts that are presented in the class room. Others, now in the minority, take the opposite view that the things to be sought at college lie totally without the class room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 4/26/1918 | See Source »

Therefore, all we ask of the Athletic Committee is the restoration of the indispensable--the factor bringing success in our spring athletics. We do not petition for a blind return to the old evils. Let highly-paid coaches, extensive advertising, and the general commercialization of amateur athletics lie buried as they now are by the present war. A little longer and they may be stifled for good and all. A return to intercollegiate games does not mean a return to evils. A return to Intercollegiates does mean athletic attainment. It is for this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MEETING TONIGHT | 2/19/1918 | See Source »

...lie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Advocate Shows Puerility | 12/19/1917 | See Source »

...families mean sadness because of the absence of loved ones in camp or at the front. If he will enter into the spirit of the Red Cross Christmas, if he will give part of his vacation to active service in the Red Cross membership drive, he will find that lie has served his country--and himself--profitably and patriotically. Chairman, War Council, American Red Cross...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Red Cross Message to the Colleges of America. | 12/18/1917 | See Source »

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