Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...very thoughtful but we can imagine becoming quite as absorbed in "Paradise Lost" as in "Christable." Mr. LaFarge is very worth reading on the other side, but has, at times, the rather irritating superiority of the classicist. The unsigned opening contribution to the number gives us three opinions of war in the abstract, of which the first would seem the justest, though the author obviously did not mean it to appear so. Mr. Parsons' "The Abandoned House" is good description but the word "animals" is rather a colorless designation for rats. A story by the same author, "Footfalls...
Major Beith, or Ian Hay, as he is better known in this country, will speak on a subject connected with the war and based upon his recent visit to the battle front...
Major Beith has had many experiences in the war and has watched its progress carefully since the beginning. In the summer of 1914 he enlisted in the Tenth Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, and spent six months of that fall and winter training at Aldershot, England. Soon afterwards, his regiment was sent to France, where they went into action among "the first hundred thousand...
...British War Office granted him a furlough last year, and since then; he has spent a large part of his time lecturing in this country. Twice last winter he addressed audiences in the University, once in Sanders Theatre and once in the Union. Major Beith has also delivered lectures before the student bodies at Yale and at Princeton...
...Belknap '20, manager of the Freshman team last year, then spoke on the responsibility of the Class of 1921 to keep athletics going. "Your class," he said, "is the only real class in the College. All the others are cut in half by the war. Your teams are the only real teams to represent the University. It is almost entirely up to you to see that athletics continue here during the war...