Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Additional information, as well as the W. S. S. Bulletin, which gives facts concerning the War Savings Stamps and explains the object of their sale, may be obtained by writing to "W. S. S. Competition, American Institute of Graphic Arts, 119 East 19th Street, New York City." The text or wording on contributions is optional, but the W. S. S. mark which will be sent on application should appear, and all entries should be sent charges prepaid and carefully packed...
...possible to say with much truth that the stimulus of war interest is the very factor that has depressed students' industry in the other subjects. And yet what was the real nature of the ardent request filed by the Yale News, if its editors could only have known it? It was in fact an appeal for a Short-Cut to Knowledge. As wiser heads know, there is no such detour. The path of the regular curriculum is the one highway leading to the real Castle of Comprehension, if it leads anywhere at all. The students say they want the road...
...date for the annual Student Conference at Northfield has been set for June 18 to June 28 inclusive, and students of all New England colleges and many secondary schools may attend. It was at first doubtful whether, on account of the war, the conference would be held at all this year, but it has now been definitely decided to maintain the custom of over 20 years' standing, and hold the convention as usual...
...upon it the boundaries for a Jugo-Slavic, a Little Russian, a Great Russian, a Czech, a Polish, a Greek and an Armenian state, it is not so easy to put this division into effect or to justify it as a method for permanently quelling the periodic outbreaks of war in Europe...
...southern and eastern Europe is such as to preclude any division into national communities. The second is that these local states once established will not be governed by their peaceful and illiterate peasantry, but by scheming leaders and princes who are more likely to plunge Europe again into war than to keep it at peace. The interspersion of the racial elements in Russia, Austria and the Balkans makes their separation impossible. Bulgars and Serbs, Magyars and Ukrainians do not inhabit separate provinces, but separate villages or farms. Their division would be almost as difficult as to divide the South politically...