Word: though
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...many members to have their names in the front-page write-ups. Professors Baker, Post, Chase, Ropes, Lake, Graves, and Ford, for example, will have to be satisfied with temporary obscurity. What if the commissary officer should see Professor Frankfurter mentioned in the Law School notices, even though he knows that no one reads them? No longer will the glorious tales of athletic victories take place etymologically on Soldiers Field. Nor can the rank list be published...
...Library and chairman of the Council of the College Library, shows that the Library has reached a total of nearly two million volumes and pamphlets. As Professor Coolidge's report reads: "It now ranks both in size and in quality among the greatest collections of books in the world, though its constituent parts are of uneven strength and all present unlimited possibilities of improvement." The principle need seems to be satisfactory endowment, which will not make the departments dependent on the varying gifts of each year. For the most part the housing of the collections is unsuitable. The price...
...preparation for war. That interest will be held by still more when war is actually declared. Dramatic performances and social affairs have been cancelled; intercollegiate athletics are naturally the last to go. But at such times everything which hinders military training must be set aside and for this reason, though the necessity for it is highly regrettable, the Athletic Committee's action is clearly the only proper...
This does not complete the list of possible ways of training or serving in the military forces of the United States, though it does include the most popular and practical. What is essential is that every member of the University should have some decision on what he will do in case of war before Congress meets next Monday. Then if, as seems probable; war is declared the University as a whole will be able to throw itself unreservedly into the service of the Government. Confidence and determination will take the place of doubt and irresolution. If we must have...
...Chapman (Victor) 124th Aerial Squadron, sergeant pilot in the fighting section, a model of audacity, energy and initiative, and the admiration of his companions of the Squadron, and who, though on the 17th of June seriously wounded in the head, refused to be relieved from duty. A few days thereafter he made a dashing attack upon several aircraft and in the course of the struggle met a glorious death...