Word: war
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Captain Dunn was born in Adams, and is 39 years old. At the out-break of the Spanish-American war, when he was only 18, he enlisted as a private in the Massachusetts National Guard, and served during the war in Cuba. As a result of this, he was commissioned first lieutenant in the National Guard in 1909, and held that rank until his regiment became part of the regular army in March...
...matter of education is one of timely interest and importance just now, for the war is sweeping away many old ideas and creating new ones that will materially affect the coming generation. We realize now that the interchange of instructors between our universities and those of Germany was not the benevolent scheme that we believed it to be, but an important step in the Kaiser's attempt to influence public opinion here by implanting his peculiar kultur in the breasts and minds of impressionable youth. We are beginning to understand also that in the future we shall be bound more...
...school of education that will be established after the war, care must be taken to give instruction in facts and allow individual opinion to follow its natural bent. To attempt a whole sale direction of the thoughts and reasoning power of the young is to create a nation of Germans, who think in platoons and whose highest ideal in personal conduct does not rise above blind obedience to their superior officers...
...undergraduate publications at Yale have been suspended. The "Daily News" has announced that, since all its editors but one were at the front and since men in the S. A. T. C. had no time for editing the newspaper, the next issue would appear after the war. The "News" was one of the leading college dailies. The Yale Literary Magazine, commonly known as the "Lit," after eighty years of continued publication has also been forced to cease publication. An attempt will be made to publish the "Record," the comic magazine of the university, in a quarterly number, but no other...
...Monday the Campaign of the United War Workers will begin. At this time when Germany is laying down her arms in acknowledgement of defeat, we must not lessen our efforts to make the drive a success. During the many months before the boys can be brought back home their welfare must be cared for as in war...