Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...final get-together smoker before the inevitable loss of men who will leave in May and June to enter military service. This evening's festivity is of note as being the first smoker to be held at the University since the entrance of this country into the war. The smoker will also be the first of a series of war-time social functions which will be held by the different classes during the remainder of the College year...
...enrolment of the student body for summer work on farms, in shipyards and in munition plants. Each man will be afforded an opportunity of securing work which will not only offer a remuneration proportionate to his experience and ability, but which will provide substantial aid to our war organization...
...spite of solemn promises Germany has torpedoed more Spanish ships in the last few weeks than in the whole previous period of the war, finally forcing out of office a cabinet at Madrid which was doing its best to remain neutral. Germany is picking a quarrel with Denmark for interning the prize crew of a captured Spanish steamship stranded off the Danish coast. Germany seizes the Aland Islands, which formerly belonged to Sweden and which command the northern entrance to the port of Stockholm and the exit from the Gulf of Bothnia, through which the largest part of Sweden...
This measure has been found to be legal. A treaty of 1799 with Prussia stated that if war were declared between the United States and Prussia, merchants of both countries should have nine months to settle their affairs and leave. Those nine months have now expired. No one, if he remembers the destruction of American property on the high seas, can say that we are grabbing what we can from a defence-less enemy. The argument that their industries should not be returned until this property is paid for is certainly convincing...
...American public has been called upon so often for war charities and has at all times made so adequate a response that the mere announcement of another occasion for giving may assume success. Yet it is an opportunity deserving the particular support of University students which the annual spring clothing collection of the Phillips Brooks House affords...