Word: return
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...classics will dwindle and in their stead practical studies such as sociology, political economy, will be sought by these boys who have been in touch with the realities of life. Those officers who have been lucky enough to escape destruction with serious gravity bitten into their character, when they return to their studies will act as a leaven among the new undergraduate bodies...
Another step to eradicate the traces of war and to return the University to its old-time customs has been taken. The Senior Dormitories are once more being opened to Seniors only and each succeeding class will again make its last home together in the ancient rooms of the Yard. The Class of 1920 has the privilege of being the first in two years to spend its last year as a body. Its union in the Freshman dormitories is fittingly closed by a reunion in Senior dormitories...
These exercises have attained a time honored significance from which no one desires to be excluded. And yet the disruption of the class has prevented many men from being graduated this year, as well as made it impossible for others even to return to College. In extending the privilege of Class Day to all men who ever laid claim to 1919, the Seniors have recognized these facts. Men who technically are not rated as Seniors, and yet at any time have been associated with them officially are urged to be present. The older men grow, the more they appreciate class...
...sure civilization has struggled up in the midst of destructive wars, and was apparently never so flourishing as in the spring of 1914. The course of the war, however, has gone far to convince mankind that there can be no return to the old order of things. One of the mistakes of those who oppose a League of Peace is to think that any country in the world can go back to the place that it occupied five years ago. Not only are three great empires smashed, but the fourth--Germany, seems to be in the midst of civil...
...constitution, our system of government, our laws, our possessions, except the present right to make war when we think best, for reasons that satisfy us, against any other nation that we see fit. This is a small privilege to a nation like ours, which is essentially pacific. In return for that concession we get two great privileges. The first is an assurance against the return of the frightful conditions which led to the present war, into which we were forced whether' we would or no. In the second place, the vast influence of the United States, about which President Wilson...