Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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March 26: Professor Ward--"The Weather Factor in the War." Geol. Lect. Room...
Hundreds of thousands must be obtained as gifts.--A. L. A. WAR SERVICE...
...University can help in no slight degree in stocking the shelves of the army and navy. Many men have old novels that they never expect to read again cluttering up their rooms, novels that will be of great value in war libraries. It would indeed be strange if there were not a superfluity of books in an institution of learning...
This week a nation-wide appeal is being made for contributions of books for war libraries for men in service at home and abroad. More than a million books will be required to supply camps, barracks, transports and hospitals with plenty of readable books. Fiction, biography, history, travel, poetry, and almost any form of literature will be welcome. Contributions will be supplemented by generous purchases, especially in scientific and technical lines...
Special leeway is to be given men who leave College to enter the service. They will not be held accountable for their rooms any longer than they occupy them. If a man engages a room and leaves for war service during the summer, his entire responsibility for it ceases. If he was rooming with someone else at the time, the other man will have the option to choose a new roommate...