Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Dean Haskins has announced that there will be no war lecture this Wednesday. Ordinarily, the seventh of the University Series of War Lectures would be delivered at this time, but owing to the fact that the annual University Christmas service is to be held in Appleton Chapel at 8.15 o'clock, it was decided to postpone the seventh lecture until after the recess. Several men are being considered as speakers for Wednesday, January 9, but no decision has been made...
...Cross is acting as a war-winner and a peace-stayer," said Henry P. Davison, chairman of the War Council of the American Red Cross to a CRIMSON representative during his recent visit to Boston. "The work of the Red Cross in France today not only serves to strengthen and support the armies and to keep up the health and morale of the young and old behind the lines, but it is also laying a strong foundation upon which to build a satisfactory and lasting peace after the conclusion of the war. It is helping our men now, and helping...
...brought to the hospitals, and of the tremendous good it has done to the needy children and old people; but few appreciate the indirect effect which all this work will bring about. We are giving a demonstration to the people of our allies that we are really in this war. We are showing them that we are not the 'land of the dollar,' but a land of honor, justice and mercy...
...Granted that we will win the war. But after the war we must make a peace which will not be repugnant to the aims we have fought for. As allies, we must hang together in peace and in war. We can hardly imagine the disastrous results if we make a peace which would fall through, and then have to fight a whole war over again. Besides directly saving lives and shortening the war, the Red Cross is forming relations with the European people and definitely forming the character of the peace and showing what American ideals...
Both University and Freshman rifle teams were formed last year, but the war caused the disbanding of both. Twenty-five candidates reported for the 1920 team, and they practised regularly for five weeks, until the outbreak of war. Negotiations had been made for meets with the Princeton and Yale freshmen...