Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Today's cross-country meet at Syracuse marks the first intercollegiate race held in this country since the war. Besides the University, seven colleges have entered teams: Dartmouth, Yale, Princeton, Colgate, Columbia, Cornell and M. I. T. The race this afternoon is of particular interest in that it will give some indication of the relative strength of the University and Cornell, who will run a dual race next Saturday...
...unique form of war memorial has been instituted at Princeton in the shape of 10 scholarships, named in honor of graduates killed in the war. These scholarships will be open to competition and will provide for tuition, traveling expenses, and, in special cases, for part of living expenses. The funds provided for these scholarships will be accounted as a portion of the endowment fund of $14,325,000 which Princeton is now raising...
...cannot be that the world is too small for both capital and labor to exist in it at once. The two are complementary. Fair and equable relations between them must be possible. During the war labor gave much; capital promised much. Now that war is over, labor, willing to compromise on many questions and expecting like concessions from the other side, meets, capital. But capital, which has swallowed far bigger pills in its day, refuses recognition of collective bargaining a principle under which it has been tacitly working many years. This principle labor cannot abandon without losing all for which...
...Wetzel died of pneumonia on October 17, 1918, at the Red Cross Hospital at Neuilly, France, where he had been serving as a Red Cross executive. Throughout his life he had devoted himself to the cause of art, being particularly distinguished for his Oriental collections. Just previous to the war he was for a while Curator of Persian and Mohammedan Art at the Boston Art Museum...
...donor of these scholarships, Samuel Abbott Green, graduated from the here in 1854. He served with distinction a surgeon in the Civil War, and was for a time mayor of Boston...