Word: nears
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...rest our faith in the impregnability of our arms. If this is the heralded offensive, we welcome it as an opportunity to inflict great losses upon the enemy and to bring about a new alignment in the West which may well permit successes for us in the near future. If it is but a feint, we will continue to be watchful for the time when the German lines may feel the irresistible force of our advance...
...actual work of issuing the books is being done by army chaplains, the Y. M. C. A., the K. of C., the Red Cross and the Y. W. C. A. From base hospitals to billets as near the front-line trenches as possible books are being placed in the hands of our fighting...
...United States, and it had become venerable. In its age, with wrinkles stealing on, it had settled down comfortably and seemed to announce to landscape gardeners and architects that it intended staying there for some time. We had all come to regard it as a privileged character, a near relative of Massachusetts, Harvard and Hollis, patriarchs of the family group...
With the approach of the long vacation and the uncertainty of military plans for the near future, the question of utilizing the otherwise idle summer months of the country's best advantage must necessarily become pertinent in the mind of every undergraduate. Of the great number of men who will not enlist in any military organization, either because of physical disability or because of the necessity of earning money during the summer, as many as possible must engage in some activity which will be of direct service to the nation...
...first and second crews. At some time before that date the two highest University boats will race each other, and the winning crew will represent the University against a boat similarly chosen at Yale. These two crews will toss for the course, the choice being between the new Housatonic, near New Haven, and the Charles River course. If the first crews race on the Charles the second crews will race on the Housatonic, and vice versa...