Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...traveling fellowships in Architecture and in Landscape Architecture, which are usually awarded to men of the School, will not be given this year on account of the difficulty of travel abroad, and because work can not be carried on in Europe under favorable conditions until after the war...
...have the feeling that they are wasting their time in any but military courses. They must remember that they are not here merely to mark time before being sent to a training camp. To say that we are now preparing for after the war has become a trite though necessary truism; but it is also of distinct disadvantage for a man in his career as an officer to get into bad habits of loafing. Finally, we often overlook the value of a general college education in war itself. A single striking example will bring this clearly before our minds...
...decision of Eastern universities to resume intercollegiate baseball games this spring and the almost simultaneous announcement that the leading tennis tournaments will be revived during the approaching season are welcome. The seriousness of our entrance into the world war was nowhere more deeply appreciated than in collegiate and amateur athletics. The leading men on the gridiron and the diamond disappeared from their wonted places to take up the grimmer game for the sake of country. Nine of the ten ranking tennis players of 1916 are enlisted in the service of the nation, and the tenth is indispensably engaged...
Flanders, the cockpit of Europe; the Balkans, the checkerboard of European politics; in a word, this has been Continental history for over a century. We may go far in our explanations of the causes of this war, but we must inevitably turn to the land of many races and mongrel nations if we are ever clearly to understand them. The events of July, 1914, were in great part the result of the previous thirty years intrigue in the Balkans. The events of March, 1918, are surely the same. Pan-Germanism, for three years at a stand-still, once more takes...
...proclamation is worth several Presidential or Prime-Minister definitions of peace after war. It speaks louder than mere words. Our enemies, we believe, will fully appreciate the determination which lies behind the fact of any trade renunciation necessary to win the war. he Outlook...