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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...attendance at McGill has decreased very considerably especially in the upper classes where men are old enough to enlist, but, as it has happened this year, the attendance has increased which makes it look as if we had not lost so many students after all: As a matter of fact, the difference in the number between this year and that of 1914 is less than 500: this notwithstanding the fact that considerably over 600 of our undergraduates have enlisted since the commencement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CANADIAN COLLEGES SHOW EFFECT OF EUROPEAN WAR | 4/4/1917 | See Source »

...Reunion," by Miss Eleanore Hinkley, is a much better play, from the dramatic point of view, perhaps the best of the four. "A Transfer of Property," by Mark A. Reed, is a satire on up-to-date religious fanaticism, as "The Harbour of Lost Ships" is of the old-fashioned type. It is an attack on Christian Science, and is on the whole as unskillfully constructed as it is admirably acted. Moreover, it makes the mistake common in plays of its type of failing to give a fair show to both sides of the question. "The Little Cards," by John...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRODUCTION SUCCESSFUL | 4/4/1917 | See Source »

...Reunion," a sketch by Eleanor Holmes Hinkley, a Radcliffe special student, deals with age and sentiment. The chief characters are a woman 80 years old and a man of 62. Miss Hinkley, the author, takes the leading part...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMATIC CLUB PLAYS READY | 4/2/1917 | See Source »

...interested should go to Room 940, Old South Building, any week day between 11 and 4 o'clock. No one will receive an ensign's commission until he has passed his final tests...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NAVY AVIATION SCHOOL TO BE FORMED AT SQUANTUM | 3/31/1917 | See Source »

...those who are not now at work discharge their servants that they might be used for other purposes. The second possibility is in cutting down on luxuries. The men thus released could enlist or turn to more necessary production. Similar results would be obtained if we all wore our old clothes twice as long. The textile industry could then cut its labor in half...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WAR BRINGS NECESSITY OF FACING ECONOMIC PROBLEM | 3/31/1917 | See Source »

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