Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...bill to establish a supreme war council will be discussed in Congress today. Although the Administration objects to its passage, yet many men in both House and Senate favor the measure. The plan, in short, is to establish a board of about three members, which will supervise and co-operate our commercial and industrial activity. Meetings, which the President is expected to attend, will be held very frequently. Although this council is intended to be superior to the Cabinet, in that it coordinated the activity of the secretaries with that of the specially-appointed regulators such as Mr. Hoover...
Because the "times seem inappropriate for the usual festivities," the New York Harvard Club has indefinitely postponed its annual dinner. In place of this usual reunion and in order that those members of the club who are not absent from the city on war service may learn of the progress of affairs at the university, and particularly that they may hear of the important part which the members of the University are having in the war, a meeting of the club will be held next Saturday evening at 9 o'clock. President Lowell has promised to be present. Colonel Paul...
While Princeton has thus been increasing its teaching corps, Yale has been forced to accept a reduction of its faculty. That the war is exacting its toil of professors as well as of students is indicated by the recent leaves of absence granted to members of the New Haven teaching staff to engage in Government service. The tariff commission has called Dr. Bidwell as it called Professor Taussig of the University; a British committee of information has asked for the services of Professor Canby, who will represent American interests in the work to be performed; the City War Bureau...
...training schools for officers conducted by the Government. In this way, students who are in Military Science 2 can remain in College throughout their course without fear of being drafted into the army as privates. This order has been promulgated by command of the Secretary of War and it is expected that other schools and colleges whose R. O. T. C. organizations are recognized and approved by Washington will be included...
Princeton's decision to permit her students to engage in intercollegiate athletics--sport of the sort was dropped at Princeton when we entered the war--has excited both adverse criticism and applause. As the writer understands it, Princeton has no idea of a restoration of the former spectacular displays as staged at the Yale Bowl, at Cambridge, and at Princeton, but, on the contrary, a sane and economical indulgence in games against teams of other colleges. There are now some seven hundred upper classmen in Princeton who, under conditions that have obtained for nearly a year, have been debarred from...