Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Since the installing of a military library in the basement of University Hall, several new books and pamphlets have been received from the War Department, bringing the total number of volumes now at the disposal of students up to more than...
...present the library contains many copies of all the important regulations issued by the War Department, including such books as the "Engineers' Field Manual," "Rules of Land Warfare," and "Landscape Sketching." A number of detailed maps of the western front are now on exhibition. There are also plans of the latest bombs and hand grenades and a collection of photographs illustrating trench life and warfare. F. W. C. Hersey '99, of the Department of English, is in charge of the library...
With all the bride's relatives weeping over his anticipated demise, it is wonderful that the bridegroom at the war wedding bears up as well as he does. Perhaps he is upheld by the knowledge that the bridegroom is now, as never before, the centre of attention. Where once they whispered, "No matter if he does look inane; every one will be staring at the bride," they say today, "Who would have supposed Willie would turn out to be so handsome in his new uniform?" Such a reversal of roles is worthy of an article by Mr. Shonts...
...War has done its best to deprive the Living Room of the Union of all its old-time functions. No longer can we walk in that spacious hall to pick up the Kalamazoo News. No longer can we loll about in leather chairs, smoking or studying art from historic Harvard portraits. The Living Room is a changed place. Three times a day one thousand men rush in for sustenance and it seems that more than one thousand dark figures in white coats rush about providing this sustenance...
These, however, are war-time measures. The Living Room can not remain changed forever. Back in the prehistoric days before the war the Juniors used to hold dances in this room and tonight the Class of 1919 carries on the tradition. All traces of the eating establishment have been removed, which has been no small task. Yesterday's dining hall becomes tonight's terpsichorean bower, a transformation which Juniors alone could effect...