Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...backstairs variety. It is called "Thirty Years of Harvard Aesthetes" and is by Dorian Abbott '15. It is an account of the exotic at Harvard, both past and present. Some of the characters are easily recognizable. "Cigarette" is obviously Alan Seeger, and if I did not feel for the war-time purse of the CRIMSON in defending libel suits, I could catalogue a rather distinguished array of aesthetes referred to. The moral attitude of the writer is clear: he frowns upon gin-drinking and purple lights, and sneers at aesthetes who use cologne and wear fillets...
...war has brought all of us together under one banner. We had a common ideal. We were eager to sacrifice for one common purpose. What will be our ideal now that the war has ended? Will we work together for the common good, or will there be a breaking up of a great national purpose into a number of conflicting, smaller, and more selfish purposes...
...news from Europe causes us to rejoice. But at the same time it makes us thoughtful. We feel the seriousness of the coming months. We know that the good of the nation will demand even greater moral and mental strength than was demanded by the war. To keep the world safe, to substitute better ideals for those that are outworn, to protect the weak, to direct the powerful, to build social machinery that will serve all classes and all nations without injustices--here are some of the tasks confronting us. Boston Traveler...
Conditions at Yale University, as everywhere else, have been completely altered by the war-time requirements. Here, as in almost every college in the United States, an S. A. T. C. and a Naval Unit have been established; the Yale S. A. T. C. is commanded by Major S. A. Welldon, F. A., U. S. A., and the Naval Unit is commanded by Rear Admiral C. M. Chester, U. S. N., retired. Of the 1600 students enrolled in the university, almost half are in the artillery school; a large per cent of the rest are in the Naval Unit...
...war has also caused an extensive reorganization of almost all the departments of Yale University, with the result that the many disjointed branches which went to make up the university have been consolidated into a more efficient group; also several new courses bearing directly on the war have been introduced, among which is a course in "War Issues," a combination of History and Economics which corresponds almost exactly to the course in "Problems and Issues of the War" given here...