Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...program, recently announced by E. E. Babb, chairman of the B. A. A. athletic committee, will be the events exclusively set aside for men in the service. These follow: 40-yard dash, 40-yard rescue racer, 600-yard run with full equipment, rope-climbing contest, tug-of-war between teams composed of eight men, and relay races. There will be two special races for both soldiers and civilians in which entrants they show by preliminary trial that they are worthy of competing. One of these, the three-mile run, is scratch, and athletes must show a record of 16 minutes...
President Wilson's order for the reorganization of the Department of Labor means that the United States has learned one great lesson in the war. The Government now recognizes that this successful prosecution of the military campaign requires the mobilization, distribution and conservation of workers. It is a lesson we should have learned from the experience of other nations; indeed, we did have a value notion of the importance of intelligent supervision of labor when we entered the struggle. But the actual necessities of the case were not comprehended until our own errors and mistakes enforced them...
Only now are some citizens awakening to the fact that in this war the whole power of the nation must be exerted. We cannot win victory in the conflict unless every atom of our energy is directed to one end. Mobilizing man power means more than putting armies in the field. It means that in all forges and shops, on all transportation lines, on all farms, the unified strength of every American will be exercised under competent guidance to the achievement of a common purpose. --New York...
Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, will give the next of the series of war lectures planned by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Monday of next week at 5 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall. "The United States Navy" is to be the subject of Mr. Roosevelt's talk, and he will discuss the organization of his department and the role that naval warfare has played in the world struggle for democracy. The preceding lectures of the series have been held on Wednesday evenings, and the present departure from the usual day and hour...
...practically the same; they both insist upon the restoration of Belgium and the return of Alsace-Lorraine to France. The one real difference between the desires of the Allies now and last summer comes in the question of the fate of the German government. When we entered the war we were going to destroy the German government and not the German people; we hoped for a German revolution and with it a representative government. Yet our hopes in this direction seem farther and farther from being realized, and now we are coming from generalities to definite terms...