Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...back into active service and stationed at Newport. On the basis, of his previous naval work in the University Hodgens took the examinations for ensign in August, passed them, and received his commission the last of September. He had just obtained his discharge from the service when he was stricken with pneumonia...
...three long years of war, our obligation can not be wiped out by our entrance into the war. We came in by necessity, for our own rights and the safety of the world. France is still our creditor. We can help pay our debt by rebuilding her stricken districts. In doing this we shall accomplish an end at once much needed and entirely practical...
...University was represented by 51 graduates in the various units of the American relief expedition recently sent from New England to aid the stricken city of Halifax. On the day of the disaster President Lowell was, with others, in conference with Governor McCall, and arrangements were made immediately to send the first special relief train, in charge of the vice-chairman of the Massachusetts Committee on Public Safety...
...England division of the American Red Cross had a relief outfit in readiness for the special train which Governor McCall had ordered to be sent to Halifax. The outfit included sweaters, medical and hospital supplies, nurses and a committee to begin the work of civilian relief in the stricken city...
...student body. It would be just as foolish, however, to maintain that the University has done enough. As long as the war lasts and there is need to support these ex-military undertakings, we shall do our part. Today we are asked to give what we can to aid stricken Halifax. What that city needs above all things is money. Conditions there are such that the entire East must respond to the call for help in order to relieve the fearful suffering. It is likewise most necessary to reconstruct and reorganize completely and immediately a port of so great importance...