Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Captain Archibald Roosevelt '17 has been both decorated with the Croix de Guerre and wounded, according to word received yesterday by the War Department. The decoration was awarded for "gallantry in action," but the details of the engagement have not yet been made public...
...question as finally worded by Princeton is: "Resolved, That the Government in financing the war should obtain a larger percentage of its funds from taxes than from bonds...
...11th annual concert of the Harvard Musical Club showed clearly that despite war conditions, and attractive and well-composed program could be carried through with the customary high standards of performance long since established by this organization...
Messrs. Smith and Thompson gave evidence of careful preparation in their numbers for two pianos. After the vigorous concerto movement by Back, Reynaldo Uahn's delicate pieces, "To Lull a Convalescent," afford a poignant indication as to the reaction of the war upon a sensitive Gaelic mind. Two songs by Verlaine F. Hinners '19 to texts by Vervain were sung by Dr. Davison with a romantic appreciation of their atmospheric contents, and with no slight interpretative skill. The piquant Terzetto by Dyorak, with its inimitable Scherzo was excellently played by Messrs. Gammons Baker and Hoffmann. Duets by Hershey and Brahms...
...wording of the subject for the annual triangular debate on the ground that the present form automatically gives the debate to the affirmative side. What action will be taken by Yale and Princeton is not yet known. At present the wording stands: "Resolved: That the Government in financing the war should obtain a larger percentage of its funds from taxes than from bonds." If the University's protest is accepted, as it probably will be, Princeton will have to modify the wording in some way, or, if no agreement can be reached, a new question will have to be formulated...