Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...arousing enthusiasm in Army and Navy circles. Track games for the soldiers and sailors are to be held. In place of the usual 100-yard dash on the cinder track, this race will take place on the football field from goal post to goal post. A tug-of-war and relay races are also scheduled...
Criticism of Yale's war policy particularly as that policy affects athletics, has led Captain W. S. Overton, U. S. A., Professor of Military Science at Yale to write a letter in its defence to the New York...
...Professor R. N. Corwin, chairman of Yale's board of athletic control, asked me for all the football possible provided it did not interfere with military instruction. He put it squarely before me that Yale looked to me to recommend precisely such athletics as would assist the War Department which I represented...
...committee made up of members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has undertaken to organize a series of lectures which are to be given weekly on subjects connected with the war. This action has been prompted by the ignorance of most people in this country as to the events which are going on in Europe and the obvious necessity for men, especially in the R. O. T. C., to become acquainted with the customs and conditions which prevail among the armies in France...
These lectures will be given in part by members of the faculty who are in touch with special and general aspects of war work and conditions in European countries, and in part by alumni and men outside the University who can speak with authority on such subjects. The talks will be given weekly, ordinarily on Wednesday evenings, and will be open to members of the University only, not to the public...