Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Lowell Institute has announced its second series of lectures consisting of five courses of talks by prominent men from American universities. Two of these, bearing directly upon the war, will be given by Thomas S. Adams, Professor of Political Economy in Yale University, on "The Economics of War"; and by Edwin B. Wilson '99, Professor of Mathematical Physics in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, on "The Principles of Aeronautics." The other three will be on "Convention, Originality and Revolt in Poetry," by John L. Lowes, recently appointed Professor of English in the University; on "Food, Money and Trade...
Last season candidates for the rifle team were not called out until February 20, when a series of matches with other colleges was arranged, but the advent of the war caused the abandonment of the sport. Two years ago the University rifle team was a member of the National Rifle Association, a league of those colleges which had teams in the field. The colleges were divided into classes according to the calibre of their teams, and the University was put in class C when the sport was first organized. The difficulty with this was that Yale, Princeton, and Cornell were...
...last issue of the Yale Alumni Weekly a splendid protest against German influence in American universities is lodged and with it a splendid prophecy that the war will free us from this thralldom. Starting back in the fifties when American students began to study at German universities, this influence has grown until in all too many places it is a distinctly dominant force. The chief objection to the German method as pointed out in this Yale publication is its "soul-less" quality, Efficiency has been the watch-word; masses of information have been the result. This system has not only...
With the situation on the European war fronts as critical as at present, it appears to be, any delay in arming our troops is suicidal. It is only natural that the gun shortage as exposed in the investigation now going on in Washington has caused no little excitement...
Whether Crozier or Baker is to blame is immaterial. The fact remains there is marked inefficiency in the War Department. The sooner we can weed out this element the sooner we can begin real fighting. The Allies are counting on our guns, our shells and our men to win this war; we have the men, but without arms they are useless. The Lewis gun scandal was apparently not sufficient to stir our Ordnance heads; if the present trouble does not wake them from their coma there ought to be a general house-cleaning in the War Department...