Word: reds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...teach the people to live more cheaply and to conserve the nation's resources; forty state colleges which have for years had military training as a dominant feature of their curricula, will furnish officers to instruct raw recruits; and the women's colleges stand ready to carry out the Red Cross work. And, finally, if the United States needs officers, fighters, aviators, surgeons, ambulance drivers, engineers, signal corps experts, or sailors, a hundred thousand college men offer the best that is in them...
...editors of the Freshman Red Book have decided that even if war should occur between the United States and Germany, the Red Book will nevertheless be published. Because of the probability of the war starting within a short time, it has been decided to hasten the work in all the departments as much as possible. This is especially necessary in the photographic department as the members of the Naval Reserve and the men who will take up training in the aviation section of the Signal Officers' Reserve Corps may leave College shortly. The photographic committee has fortunately obtained the pictures...
...circumstances should arise such that it is found impossible to publish the Red Book this year, it will be published eventually. About 200 paid subscriptions have been obtained and about 400 photographs have already been taken. The work of the business department is also progressing well, but it will be impossible to obtain many advertisements before the spring recess...
Last year's Red Book came out in the middle of June but this year the editors, in case there is war, hope to get it out early in May, but as several of the editors are already enrolled in the Reserve Officers Training Corps and some of the others intend to enlist in the Naval Reserve this plan may not be accomplished...
...parents who are then able to see their sons' classmates whom have been described or mentioned in letters sent home or in other ways. With a circulation of about 1,500 copies, fully one-half of which goes outside of the Freshman class, does it seem that the Red Book is "valuable" only to Freshmen? Then, too, is the average college student expected to give money for the various war reliefs? Is it not chiefly the older generation that can afford to and does supply most of the money for the war sufferers? Would it not seem a bit unusual...