Word: neutrals
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...horrors of war are many. We shudder for the poor French snail, which may no longer visit our neutral shores. But--Venus is with...
Formerly there were many foreign students. Until 1915 the number was 4,750, but it has now fallen to 1,505. The drop is due to the departure of enemy students and the decrease of students from friendly and neutral countries. Still, all alien and enemy students have not gone; there are sixty-two Russian students, two English five Italian and one Belgian, but they are doubtless of German origin, or possibly a cosmopolitan class of mosaic nationality. New York...
This amalgamated committee of fourteen members has spent the last ten years in making football a better game. They have made the old-time "rush-line scrapping" a thing of the past by the establishment of a neutral zone between the two forward lines; they have instituted reforms in the forward pass, and in the mass play...
...party include a surgical staff, a medical staff, dentists, a pathologist, a bacteriologist, a roentgenologist, and specialists in the eye and ear. Thirty-six graduate nurses complete the unit. The party went for service under the British War Office, under a clause in the Geneva Convention which allows neutral nations to send sanitary and medical aid to the scene of hostilities without sacrificing their neutrality. The members of the unit have, therefore, not been commissioned as British officers, but received rank corresponding to that of officers...
...Though the students were not, 'voting' members (those having a vote in the election of the members of the American delegation in the final neutral conference), still they did form a vital part of the Expedition itself. The students were the first to organize. They not only participated in the regular meetings of the party, but they had their own student meetings both on the ship and in all of the capitals visited. In each of the countries visited the American students were always received most cordially by the foreign students, and many joint meetings were held. At such meetings...