Word: takings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Phillips Brooks House will take the place of the Y. M. C. A. in all the University's military and naval activities. As many of the embryo officers will wish to see their families and relatives before leaving for an O. T. C., the Phillips Brooks Touse is splendidly equipped as a hostess house. The experience obtained through running the hut for the Radio School will help Phillips Brooks House in maintaining excellent writing rooms with a plentiful supply of stationery, as well as comfortable rooms for rest and reading. Entertainments will be given regularly throughout the year...
Provisions have been made for the assignment of those of the non-military students who wish to take college rooms, to room in Thayer...
...Columbia all dormitories have been converted into barracks and the registration there will probably be the cause of the largest registration the university ever had. Besides the regular military work, Columbia has set itself the task of training skilled engineers in a two-year course. The new course will take up all branches of engineering and will be open to students with the customary high school education. Naturally it will run through the four quarters of the year. Under the present arrangements the new engineers will be given a special status with the regular...
...tomorrow evening. The Sunday service scheduled to be held by Reverend Edward Taylor Sullivan of the Trinity Church, Newton, has been cancelled because of the epidemic, but Mr. Sullivan, who was a favorite preacher at the war services held this year at St. Paul's Cathedral, Boston, will still take charge of the prayer services on the evenings of Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, and Reverend David Brewer Eddy for the remainder of the week. Mr. Eddy's talks will be of special interest for the fact that he has recently returned from a visit to the fleet and the trenches...
...this drive against our divisions, and at first had gained a little ground, they burried their own dead, and left all the others where they fell. Our boys, when they took this ground eight days later saw their comrades where they had fallen, with the result that the Americans take few prisoners now. The Boches tried to fool our boys with their comrade surrender. The trick is for some of them to go ahead holding up their hands. These "Kamerads" protect the machine gun men who in turn mow down our boys. They did this just once, and if there...