Word: londoner
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Communications from the Director of the American University Union in Europe state that the London Branch of the Union is now well established. Since September the Union has had an office in the building of the Farmers' Loan & Trust Company, 16 Pall Mall, East, S.W. 1, where about 200 men have registered. Now, through the courtesy of the same company, the entire first floor has been given over to the Union. A large reading and writing room plentifully supplied with American newspapers and periodicals, together with a Bureau of Information and Registration, is open daily, in charge of Director...
Oxford and Cambridge Universities have appointed representative committees of hospitality to encourage visits to them by American college men. Any members of the American University Union who wish to avail themselves of the privileges may do so by arrangement with the London Office. All college men, whether graduates or not, are regarded as members of the Union, and all are requested to co-operate with the Director by registering in order to render the work effective...
...that the British have at last made a small air attack on "the suburbs of Cologne." Heretofore they have flown over Cologne and left it unscathed, in spite of the fact that it is the most logical place in the German empire for reprisals for the wanton attacks on London and Paris. Of all the large German cities Cologne is nearest to the British hangars; it is much nearer than Mannheim, which has repeatedly received the favors of the Allied aerial visitors; and it is the capital of Rhenish, Prussia. It is possible that Cologne has been spared hitherto...
...Every Man's Bit," written by Miss Lois Compton of Radcliffe, deals with a British slacker who is reformed and forced to enlist by the occurrence of a Zeppelin raid on London which kills his little girl. The former brutal father and husband is brought to his senses by this tragedy...
Professor Ripley is one of the leading authorities on economics in the country. In 1908 he was the Huxley memorial lecturer of the Royal Anthropological Institute in London...