Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...part of wisdom to allow some leaway to such students of the School as wanted to go to Plattsburg training camp. Despite the fact that it eventually saw the light, it seems now to have returned to the position it took at the beginning of the war. According to advices from Cambridge, it has repealed the vote whereby men leaving college three or four weeks early to enter the service shall be given credit for a full year's work. This repeal, incidentally, has aroused considerable resentment among the students and stirred the CRIMSON to an editorial which speaks...
...meeting of the University Corporation, Dean Haskins was appointed acting chairman of the Library Council. Professor Algernon Coolidge '81 was appointed acting Dean of the Graduate School of Medicine. Leave of absence until September was confirmed for Assistant Professor James Ford '04, who has already left the University for war work in Washington. The following leaves of absence were also granted: to Clinical Professor Edward Hall Nichols '86, from May 1; to Assistant Professor Alexander Quackenboss, M.D. '90, from May 1; to Assistant Professor Elliott Proctor Joslin, M. D. '94, from April...
...Messines Ridge. That the tide of battle has meant a serious reversal for the Allies, no explanation or expression of hope may minimize. The Allies have been driven back and even now are struggling at a point beyond which the German hordes may possibly pour to the sea. The war has been indefinitely prolonged, and its final verdict has been pressed into an indefinite future. The most hopeful of us must stop to ponder over so dark an outlook of the world's affairs...
...such a time as this it behooves every one of us to find the way to some active support of our cause. This war has come to mean force until life seems a hell on earth and all human relations appear unbearable. To consider its all embracing terror is to shudder. To find one's proper place in its cauldron of sacrifice and suffering is to find life and death worth experiencing. The whole world is a flaming building which we must extinguish. It calls, as nothing in history has called, for the aid of every available person who believes...
...phrase-making people and their stubborn defence of Ypres has not been illuminated by a slogan, like "They shall not pass," the battlecry at Verdun which set France aflame. But in a less spectacular way their struggle around the ancient Flanders town symbolizes the British tradition in the war as the struggle for the Douamont and Vaux fortresses and Dead Man's Hill symbolizes the tradition of the French. It was at Ypres in November, 1914, that the British regulars, the "Old Contemptibles" of the gallant first expeditionary force, stemmed the German attack led by the crack regiments...