Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...last meeting of the University Corporation on Monday, two more members of the Faculty were granted leaves of absence for the remainder of the present academic year to enable them to engage in active war work. Professor Louis Caryl Graton, of the Geology Department, was granted leave of absence to serve in Washington, where he will take charge of the activities of the Copper Producers' Committee. Professor Graton's special field at the University has been Economic Geology and his new duties will be in connection with the economic phases of copper production. Dr. Robert Jay Cook was also granted...
...German military command, gain triumph for his country and win the best girl on earth--in a play. If our dramatists were only directing intelligence operations behind the Teuton lines this week we might expect to have those 70 Prussian army divisions outflanked and slaughtered by Easter and the war ended by the Ides of April...
Robert Todd Lincoln '64, son of Abraham Lincoln, has contributed the sum of $20,000 in securities to the University toward its $10,000,000 Endowment Fund. For the present the active campaign to raise that endowment from among University alumni has been suspended because of the war, but contributions are still being received...
...reversing its decision of several weeks ago the Faculty yesterday afternoon granted permission to the University Musical Clubs to participate in a joint war-charity concert with Yale and Princeton at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, on Saturday evening, April 13. Members of the clubs will leave Cambridge at 1 o'clock on the above date and will disband for the vacation that night, after the concert...
...innovation, as it will be the first time that the Glee and Instrumental Clubs of Yale, Princeton and the University have played in a joint concert. Furthermore, the performance will take the place of the annual Intercollegiate Glee Club Meet, which was abandoned this year on account of the war...