Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...nation in its present cause. But we maintain that a distortion of news to inflate the spirits of the people serves no good purpose. When the outlook is dark, as it now is, it should be known, so that our energies may be redoubled. This is the people's war. It is only fair that they know which way the tide is turning. Moreover, our purpose is sincere enough not to require a misleading encouragement. We need not be patted on the back by sentimental expressions of the "nobility of our cause" which are insincere and almost repel us from...
...Interscholastic Champion Tournament has been an annual event held under the auspices of the University Tennis Association for 26 years. It was temporarily discontinued last season on account of the uncertainty of all athletic plans at the beginning of our participation in the war. The H. A. A. has written to the National Lawn Tennis Association suggesting May 8 as the opening date for the 27th series of matches. Invitations to the tournament will soon b sent out to all the schools on last year's tentative list...
Great success has attended the canvass in Cambridge for books to be sent to war libraries in camps at home and in France, more than 2,200, volumes having been received by the branch collection return in the Widener Library, and about 3,000 at the Cambridge Public Library. The books were of all sorts, but fiction predominated...
...War Service of the American Library Association which has been making the collection during the past week hopes that the books will continue to come in, as they will be needed as long as the war lasts, and the supply must be constantly replenished. All collection stations will be kept open indefinitely and the public is urged to form the habit of turning in their new books as soon as they have read them. More than a half-million volumes are needed at once in France and space has already been reserved in transports and freighters to send over thousands...
...will be opened in the University next Monday, April 8, under the direction of R. McA. Lloyd '19. The drive will be conducted in connection with the national campaign which is to start on Saturday, April 6, the first anniversary of the entrance of the United States into the war. A committee of students has been appointed to carry on the drive and to solicit subscriptions throughout the University under the guidance of the manager of the campaign. The publicity department will be in the hands of R. Roelofs '19 and G. C. Barclay '19, and J. M. Mitchell...