Word: return
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Canadian division has encouraged the education of soldiers by establishing a university in France. Men will receive training in varied subjects so that they can be certain of occupation upon their return home. Although it may seem strange for part of an army to spend time at classes, yet many troops either in billets during their turn out of the trenches, or else recovering from wounds, have considerable opportunity To provide a practical education for all soldiers it can reach is the aim of the school...
...desirous that the custom of the Senior Class rooming in the Yard shall not be discarded because of the war, and in consequence have announced that men will be released from room contracts if they enter national service before completing their College course. Every Junior, whether he intends to return to College next year or not, is therefore asked to file his application for rooms in the dormitories so that in any eventuality he may have accommodations reserved...
...these rooms; why, it is difficult to understand. Nine out of every ten men now in College have no definite idea of where they will be next fall. It is altogether within the bounds of possibility that a declaration of peace will make it advisable for the majority to return. In any event the College has offered every inducement by stating that any contracts will be automatically cancelled if the men do not come back, and these who apply for rooms will therefore merely be providing, at no risk to themselves, for all eventualities...
Conducting the morning prayers in the Faculty Room is a return to an earlier custom of the University. Holden Chapel, the first building designed solely for religious purposes at the University, was built in 1744, and morning prayers were held there until the building of Harvard Hall in 1765. For 50 years thereafter, services were held in Harvard Hall until the completion of University Hall in 1815. From 1815 to 1858, the present Faculty Room, a room of peculiar beauty and dignity, designed expressly for a chapel, was used for daily prayers and also for Sunday services. The pulpit...
With several hundred undergraduates either having failed to return to College since the Christmas recess or having left since that time to enlist in some branch of the national service, the university registration at Yale has fallen to approximately 1,500 men. When the college began the past fall, there were about 1,900 enrolled on the registrar's list, but since then undergraduates have been leaving rapidly...