Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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With the President's signature to a bill which has long been before Congress, the daylight-saving plan has at last become a reality. A full hour is added to the days of the summer months which is certain to be a step toward increased war efficiency...
...meet these needs a nation-wide book-drive will start on March 18, directed by the American Library War Service, and with every public library cooperating: Churches, schools and patriotic societies of all kinds have signified their willingness to help. Thousands of girls and boys are being mobilized to collect books from householders who are too busy to take them to public libraries, and every other means will be used to make the giving of books easy. Two million books is the goal set, but with public interest really aroused, it should be far exceeded.--A. L. A. WAR SERVICE...
...annual report of the Law School for the year of 1916-17 shows that part of the University to have been the hardest hit by the war, as far as enrolment is concerned. Slightly more than one-third of the number of men who attended the Law School last spring returned in the fall to continue their studies...
...above aviators, who have died in the service of the country, are representative of the share which the University is having in the present war. In addition to the above names is that of Briggs Kilburn Adams '17, a lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps, who died in a Red Cross Hospital in France last week from wounds received in action o n the Western Front. Approximately 90 members of the University are engaged in aviation...
...airplane into the German lines, was captured and held for some time in a German prison camp. The story of his escape, which was effected by jumping through a train window and working for 72 days towards the frontier, is perhaps the most extraordinary personal experience of the war...