Word: lusitania
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...establishment of two endowments at Yale in memory of persons who lost their lives in the Lusitania disaster was announced at the last meeting of the Yale corporation. Ogden Hammond, Yale '93, has given $14,000 for the establishment of a publication fund in the Semetic department in memory of Mrs. Hammond and in recognition of the distinguished services to Yale of Professor A. T. Clay...
...other endowment is in memory of E. B. Thompson, Yale '04, whose life was lost when the Lusitania sank. A scholarship of $600 annually in the Sheffield Scientific School is to be awarded to graduates of the Shield High School, Seymuor, Md., from which institution Mr. Thompson was graduated. The fund is established by his widow...
...McKim Garrison prize poem by Mr. T. Nelson, who shows clever craftsmanship, fine feeling effectively restrained, and a gift for poetic expression. Mr. K. A. Robinson's "Ballad of Famous Princes," is a vigorous poem, pleasingly sonorous, well rounded off in thought and form. Mr. G. H. Code's "Lusitania" is an appropriate dirge, too quiet for the subject, but dingified and earnest. There are three smoothly adequate descriptive lyrics: Mr. H. Hendrson's "The Twllight Mourner," on rural evening and the whip-poor-will; Mr. R. S. Mitchell's "Threnody," a fresh impression of love in Aegean landscapes...
Speaking of the Lusitania affair he said: "The present incident if correctly represented is a crime against civilization, world order, and international law. Unless Germany makes all reparations we must either follow a policy of absolute isolation, or go to war for the sake of humanity...
...loss of American life in the sinking of the "Lusitania" has brought about a situation somewhat parallel to that of a year ago, when this country was seriously aroused by the lingoistic attitudes toward the Mexican question of the less cool. The experience of the University during that period taught that far from being a feather-bed for slothful patriotism, undergraduate Harvard is often a hot-bed of too hasty and too vigorous action. Before some of the more impetuous again seek to organize military companies in the College, it would be wise to await official declarations of the stand...