Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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President Wilson has clearly presented the war aims of our nation. We desire no material advantage for our part. We are fighting for the very right of all peoples to decide the political fate of the territory they occupy. When the war is ended we can not have it said that we sanctioned the invasion of a second Belgium. We can only oppose a move which bears all the marks of selfish aggression and which impugns the honor of our purpose...
Hibbard was the leading candidate in the competition for manager of the Freshman baseball team last spring, when the season had to be given up on account of the entrance of the United States into the war. He also managed the baseball games played by the informal University team last fall...
...downfall ten years earlier. An Irishman, possessed of the peculiar Irish genius for oratory and parliamentary fencing, he compelled and retained for the Nationalist minority the alliance with the great Liberal party which forced the passage of the Home Rule bill a few months before the outbreak of the war. Redmond was deprived of the consummation of his triumph by the great events of August, 1914, and he saw the progress attained by years of unremitting effort lost through the stubborn resistance of the Ulstermen and the excesses of the Sinn Fein revolutionists. Unembittered by these reverses, Redmond from...
...William Zebina Ripley, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy at the University, has been appointed lecturer in economics for the spring session at Columbia University. He will conduct the course in "Corporations and Trusts," which has been left without an instructor by Professor Saeger, who is absent on war leave. The course will only meet on Mondays and Professor Ripley will still conduct his course at the University, which meets on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays...
...When war was declared last April all arrangements for the annual Freshman social activities, such as the Class Dinner and the Jubilee, were called off, and as a consequence the only gathering of 1920 heretofore has been a smoker held in mid-winter last year. At present there are but 400 of the original class of 600 still in College, and many are due to enter the service within the next few months...