Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...War office reports this week announce the awarding of the Distinguished Service Cross to a University man, and the Distinguished Service Medal to Captain Cordier, formerly commander of the University...
...twenty-three members of the 1916 University eleven, every man was commissioned in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps, except one who will obtain his commission in a few weeks. All but one of the men holding baseball"H's" when the war broke out were commissioned. There are nine such men. The tenth man, though not commissioned, is in the A. E. F. in France. The seventeen hockey "H" men were all in the service, and each of the five University oarsmen were commissioned officers, as were the eight track men. Tennis and golf both gave their full quotas...
Those students whose personal experience with life in the University includes war and even pre-war times are interested observers of the rapid transformation which is bringing us back to the normal order of what the outside world loves to term "college life." The signing of the armistice last November marked a very low point in the tide of college activities beyond the regular courses. At that time practically every activity which in some degree did not spring from military courses was either non-existent or well along the road to become so. The ink was searcely...
...even quadrupled in some instances. The once magic words "military duties" have lost their previously infallible power to calm instructors who wax wroth at sins of ommission and commission. There is also a growing spirit of optimism in the air, due to the replacement of the uncertain future of war times by the more discernable future in days of peace...
Such is the spirit of the times. And it indicates that the University first to place itself upon a war basis is determined to get back to a peace footing in record time. The rate at which the change is being made will soon have divested the Colege of the last lingering signs of the days of military regime. They were days which, had their advantages and their disadvantages, but undoubtedly very few would elect to live them over again. Let the "peace paint" be applied ever so rapidly, the grim effects of war cannot be effaced too soon from...