Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Yale is anxious to resume the annual Thames regatta with the University this year on a pre-war basis, according to Professor Mather Abbott, faculty director of rowing at Yale. "I hope that the report regarding the decision made by Harvard is true," said Professor Abbott, when asked to express his opinion upon the recent recommendation of the University Rowing Committee. He commented further...
...meeting last December it was decided to approach Harvard in regard to the resumption of the annual regatta at New London. If the report of Harvard's acceptance of our proposal is true, we may expect that pre-war rowing relations will be resumed with our ancient rival...
Professor W. B. Munro '99, in a talk before the Freshman Debating Club last night, spoke on "The Lessons of the War." The first lesson learned from the war is that military preparedness is futile if the cause is wrong. "Germany was easily the most thoroughly prepared nation in the war," said Professor Munro, "but her cause was wrong and her military strength availed her nothing." The next point brought out was the necessity of avoiding war in the future, while the last two dealt with the lesson of the war as regards education, mental and physical." The government...
...Class Day exercises this year are to follow the lines of those held in years before the war," said C. A. Clark '19, chairman of the Class Day Committee last evening. "Class Day this year will be the first reunion of the Class of 1919 since February, 1917, and all efforts will be made to bring it up to the standard of Class Days of former years...
...Versailles Number of the Lampoon the unspoken words of a million readers are voiced in a criticism of the overdone war jokes. To prove the justice of his complaint Lampy, to the gratification of his many faithful readers, proceeds to give an idea of what he means by modern wit. Classicism may be very well in literature, but in the realm of humor, the modern commuter prefers something smacking less of Adam and the fig leaf. His efforts easily outrank former issues and vie with that masterpiece of 1918, the Graduates Number. We are told that poetry is that...