Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...various schools of the University have done a great deal toward obtaining positions for graduates in different branches of Government work during the war. The Graduate School of Business Administration has been entirely responsible for filling 15 positions as assistant paymasters in the Navy, three positions in the Army service, and three special governmental posts. The School of Landscape Architecture has aided in obtaining over 50 positions in the Corps of Engineers, Camouflage and Forest Regiments, the Ambulance Corps, the Aviation Service and the Signal Corps. A large proportion have been under the Cantonment Division of the Quartermaster Department...
...French Government for work in connection with the Reserve Officers' Training Corps in this country, and is at present assigned to duty with the Princeton regiment. He has been a member of the 117th Infantry, from Lemans, a regiment which has distinguished itself many times during the war. While attending the lecture on "Airplane Photography," given by Lieutenant Morize at the New Lecture Hall on Wednesday afternoon, he remarked that he had fought over the ground portrayed by the aviation pictures during the battle of Le Roie...
...Lieutenant left for his new post on Wednesday night, accompanied by Lieutenant Morize, who is lecturing at Princeton today on the war...
...thing, it took the war to bring the sailor into his own. "I am surprised to find," said a kindly gentleman down in the Square to us the other day, "that your men are gentlemen." He shouldn't have been surprised; but he was just another victim of popular report. Like countless others, he thought sailors were instinctively rowdies, that the uniform was the signal for a rough-house, and that he had better nail everything down that was laying around loose...
...war cleared all that up. The sailor came in unprecedented numbers to live in towns that had seldom really known him before. Residents rallied to the war service cause with an enthusiasm and generosity that can never be forgotten. On the whole, it was just a matter of making ourselves known, as one might say, "Mr. and Mrs. Jones, I am a sailor, a gentleman and a human being, just like everyone else," and the reply was, "Glad to meet you, Mr. Sailor; Mrs. Jones and I mean to be hospitable and neighborly. You have no reason to hold aloof...