Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Several undergraduates are now petitioning the Department of Engineering Sciences to reopen the Engineering Camp at Squam Lake, N. H., this summer. Last year no camp was held on account of the war, but in previous summers an eleven-weeks' course in plane, topographic and railroad surveying has been given at Squam Lake. Credit for one and one-half courses is allowed by the College Office for the completion of the eleven-weeks' work...
Rowing at Pennsylvania will not be affected by the war. The Red and Blue oarsmen will race the midshipmen of Annapolis on the Seven River this spring and Yale has written to the Penn athletic council asking for an informal race between the two collegiate crews. That offer will be accepted...
Secretary Warren F. Sheldon of the alumni council of Wesleyan University, estimates that the college deficit this year, due to war conditions, will be from $30,000 to $35,000, in a total annual budget of about $200,000. A large freshman class has kept the deficit from being considerably larger than it otherwise would have been. The college finances have, however, decreased about 40 percent in the three upper classes. Some of the surplus funds accumulated in recent years will be used this year to make up the deficit, and Secretary Sheldon anticipates that the rest will be received...
...decrease in the number of students in College this year is much greater than the corresponding registration figures for the period of the Civil War, according to statistics compiled by the College Office. In fact, during the first three years of the Civil War the number of undergraduates remained practically constant, while this year the College has lost more than 900 men, a decrease of more than one-third as compared to last year's registration...
...Bacon, who succeeded Elihu Root as Secretary of State under President Roosevelt, and later served as ambassador to France, was elected a member of the Corporation in 1912. At the outbreak of the war he volunteered his services to the Government for the duration of the war and is now in France as a member of General Pershing's staff, holding the rank of major. The other members of the Corporation are President Lowell, Treasurer C. F. Adams '88, Dr. H. P. Walcott '58, Major H. L. Higginson '55, T. N. Perkins '91 and Bishop W. Lawrence...