Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that the easiest way to reach the American is through his pocketbook. Europeans have portrayed us as a money-loving people; our citizen and the "Yankee dollar" have become inseparable in their minds. All this may have been true previous to the last year. At the end of the war, however, Europe will no doubt realize that money-desires were but a veneer upon the true American character...
...increasing casualty lists of men failing in France, we have begun to give our lives. Pouring forth our dollars was but the washing away of the veneer. Each life now lost is a cut into the flesh. We have begun our real sorrows. We are feeling the terror of war. As the struggle becomes harder and our enemies seem only to gain, these wounds only strengthen our grim determination. For every man fallen, a brother will rise in his place. Life has become clouded, but not destroyed. Each dead man in France lives in the minds of our people...
...made by President Lowell, Dean Yeomans and B. Preston Clark of the Plymouth Cordage Company, all of whom will show the parts to be played by the undergraduate of the present day in the great problems of reconstruction which must be faced by the militant nations after the war. Provided that the men of the University show sufficient interest in this project, the College authorities plan to organize a series of discussion groups under the guidance of various professor, to take up problems concerned with future conditions arising from the struggle in Europe...
Four more members of the Faculty have been granted leave of absence for war work by the University Corporation at its meeting this week. Dr. Elmer Peter Kohler, Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry, who left for Washington for war research work on the first of this month, has been granted an extended leave of absence to enable him to continue his services there for an indefinite period. He is stationed at the American Experiment Station of the Bureau of Mines as assistant to the Director in charge of research problems...
...three major sports, baseball, crew and track, this spring, according to an announcement made by the faculty of that institution yesterday. This is the first decision at either Yale, Princeton or the University to place spring sports on practically an equal standard with the same sports before war began...