Word: similarities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...also decided to petition the Faculty to offer at least one course in practical aeronautics this next year. Most of the leading universities of Europe have already started similar courses and the question is being considered by many American universities...
...Workshop produced its play, "The Middle Window," in November, it was immediately asked by the Phillips Brooks House Association to give it again at the Hasty Pudding Theatre for the benefit of soldiers and sailors in training at Cambridge; and soon afterwards the War Camp Community Service secured a similar production of the play, first at the Copley Theatre in Boston and then at the War Camp Community hut at Ayer. The success of these performances led at once to the revival of one of the plays of last year, "Her Flesh and Blood," on the same stages in Cambridge...
...comparing these figures with similar figures of Civil War records, it appears that the percent killed of all who engaged in active service was far greater at that time. In the Civil War, 1,342 University men served in the Union armies, and 132, or 9.8 percent, were killed, or died of wounds or disease in service. Mr. H. N. Blake '58 reports that of 304 University men in the Confederate ranks, 70, or 23.2 percent were killed. The high percent of mortality in the last case was due to the fact that Confederate soldiers had to serve...
...summer term of eleven weeks will probably be arranged, so that a student beginning his work in the winter term may complete a full year by next September. The Law School also has made such an arrangement and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is expected to adopt a similar plan...
...this means that a great cross-road in life has suddenly been reached. Shall they take the road which leads directly back to home and a position, or shall they choose the more indirect road which will take them through College before bringing them to a similar destination? The decision must be made by each man during the next few days. And it will have as great if not greater influence on his future life than any other choice which he will ever be called upon to make...