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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...bonds pay 3 1/2 percent. interest, payable semi-annually June 15 and December 15, and run for 30 years but are redeemable at the option of the government at the end of 15 years. Should bonds of a higher rate of interest be issued prior to the termination of the war with Germany, these 3 1/2 percent. bonds will be convertible into bonds bearing such higher rate. This provision practically protects the holder of these Liberty Bonds against the depreciation of his securities. The bonds are the direct obligation to pay of the United States government whose good faith...
...abandonment of Yale athletics was automatic through the recent action of the athletic committee, which provided that if a war resolution were adopted prior to April 7, all athletic contests should cease on that date. Likewise, at a recent meeting in New York City of the representatives of various colleges at the invitation of the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton and Cornell made it known that their athletic activities were...
Athletic activities at Yale cease today Under the recent resolution passed by the university athletic committee it was provided that if war was declared prior to April 7, all athletics would be stopped on that date. There will be a crew race with Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, and a baseball game with the University of North Carolina today; and then all schedules will be ended for the college year...
...football and hockey matches, discontinued altogether. The interest in all college societies has greatly decreased as a result of the one overshadowing event which claims our attention. So far as the quality of the work is concerned there may not be very much difference between these days and those prior to the war, but on the whole, I think it may be said that there is not so much evidence of good scholarship today as there was under happier conditions...
...about 150 cases, up to the present war, in which states have resorted to hostilities. Some of these instances were in the nature of civil wars. In the entire list of wars, however, there are less than 15 formal declarations, and less than one-half of these were made prior to the outbreak of hostilities. It is only since the Hague Conference of 1907 that a declaration prior to hostilities has been regarded as essential. The Congress of the United States even in 1898, in declaring war against Spain, did not issue a declaration until after hostilities had already begun...