Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Just two years ago today the whole world was rocked with the news that the Lusitania had been sunk. The war had then been in progress nine months, yet nothing so terrible as this blind blow to civilization had occurred, save the first ruin of Belgium...
...campaign has been launched for a million-dollar endowment fund for the Law School. Funds are needed for the library, scholarships, lecture rooms, teaching and research professorships, loan purposes, and to enable the School to carry on its publication work. The progress and growth of the law, the great annual output of administrative decisions and the general expansion of all sorts of legal literature will call for large expenditures if the School is to maintain its up-to-date library...
...forget this purpose, even in the time of greatest bitterness. The hideous thraldom of militarism and junkerism, of Hapsburg and Hohenzollern, can no longer be endured. The age of Caesars and Napoleons has gone. German dreams of world conquest are an anachronism, and to safeguard progress we must defeat the German Army. But let us remember, paradoxical as it may seem, that in doing so we are helping to liberate the real Germany...
...Ronald Wood Hoskier '18, of the American Esquadrille of the French Flying Corps now serving in France, was killed in an aerial combat last Tuesday. He was a corporal, and had on repeated occasions distinguished himself for daring and brilliancy of operation. During the offensive that is now in progress, Hoskier engaged a German "Taube" and was seen to fall with his airplane, landing within the German lines...
...reserve commission, preparation during the recess for the final examinations is a matter of patriotic duty for members of the R. O. T. C. The examinations start five days after the vacation and are to be extended over one week only. This means that while they are in progress there will be little time for reviewing. Concentration on scholastic work during vacation is difficult at best, but this spring it is an opportunity which men who expect to be officers cannot afford to neglect. Dismissal from both the University and the Reserve Corps is too high a price...