Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Every attempt to combine military training with sports deserves encouragement. At present, two distinct movements are being started to accomplish this bayonet combat and rifle practice. In both of these the keenness of athletic competition can be used to further development in the arts of war. Recreation and exercise are by no means checked, but rather turned in such a direction as to be more useful at the present time. As most of us must learn before long how to handle a bayonet, we can have no better chance to become practiced in the art than now. Not only...
...University War Records' Office, recently established by the Alumni Bulletin in the Union, has, to date, received reports from between five and six thousand graduates and undergraduates now in war service. In the compilation of the list of alumni and students of the University who are now engaged in the service of the Government, the War Records' Office has relied solely on voluntary statements from the men now in the army or navy. It would be impossible for the office to comb the records of the million or more men now in the military and naval forces in order...
...University war records of the Civil War were not compiled until after 1865, and great difficulty was experienced then in obtaining complete data...
...finances of American universities are beginning to suffer from the effects of war. Princeton, Pennsylvania and Rutgers have all reported deficits due to decreased enrolments. They are not the only ones in this situation, for practically all American colleges have lost a large percentage of its students. upon whom they depend for much of their income. These three cases show the burden which is upon all colleges. So long as the war continues this tendency, accentuated by further reductions in enrolments, is due to become more widespread and disturbing...
...ballots on the date originally planned, January 22, and the Seniors in service will still have until February 8 to return their ballots. The addresses of the latter are being secured from F. S. Mead '87, editor of the Alumni Bulletin, who is in charge of that publication's war records...