Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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With three Liberty Loan campaigns successfully launched and taxation assuming proportions which involve every phase of American life, the question of the better method of financing the war is one of foremost importance to the entire nation. There are economic aspects and there are political aspects; one must be tempered by the other and both must receive their...
Soon after the work on the river began, R. S. Emmet '19 was elected captain of the University eight. Together with Parkman and F. B. Whitman '19, he formed a trio which served as an excellent nucleus for the war-time crew. No training table was instituted, but as rigid a system of training as was practicable was instituted and an effort was made to put the crew work on a firm basis which should set a precedent for the continuation of rowing during the war...
There is also a class of men who are not planning military summer training because they have pledged themselves to war work of a different nature--work in which their time may be more effectively spent, at least for the present, than in a camp. For them there is nothing but commendation...
...raised in the recruiting campaign for the 1916 Civilian Plattsburg Camps. It should today be the motto of every able-bodied undergraduate not entering the service at once; the idler is as bad as the draft dodger. Nor can it be a question of training on one hand against war work on the other. Do both--train for six weeks for your own future call, and then work for the nation's present needs until September 23. For no man in the United States should the summer of 1918 be called a vacation...
Lieutenant Guy Norman '90, of Newport, of the United States Naval Reserve Force, died yesterday morning following an unsuccessful operation at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He had entered the Naval service as an ensign, his rank at the close of the Spanish-American war, and had since been promoted to junior lieutenant and then to lieutenant, the rank he held at his death. Four of his brothers also served in the Spanish war...