Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Since last spring the Association has resumed its normal program, interrupted by the war, and will open up new activities as circumstances may warrant. The Class Day Spread held last June for men who do not spread elsewhere was unqualified success. In the latter part of June sixty men spent ten days at North-field in conference with delegations from other eastern colleges. Brooks House itself was open all summer for the use of Summer School students, and magazines and writing facilities were provided for them. Twenty-five hundred Freshman Handbooks were printed and distributed this fall. The Information Bureau...
Decorated for War Work...
...built on doctrines and theories of the past, many of the latter are obsolete now. The whole organization of society has changed. New means of transportation has greatly decreased, whether we willed it or not, that isolation of this nation which Washington urged. By our entrance into the World War, we gave up formally our position apart from the affairs of the world. We are in them now; we cannot withdraw. The progress of science and the development of a humanitarian feeling for the rest of mankind has placed us irrevocably on the side of world politics...
...years ago a Turkish Ambassador was handed his passports for calling attention to the inconsistency between our national preaching and practice. Never once during the late war did the German press fail to gloat over American atrocities, while now, with the Treaty of Peace not yet signed, our Allies can hardly restrain the accusing finger at our "peculiar American practice of lynching." When it was considered that President Wilson might intervene in Ireland's behalf, it was seriously moved in the English House of Commons that a committee be appointed to investigate and report upon the American institution of lynching...
...Hinton and H. C. Rodd and Chief Machinist E. S. Rhodes were members of the original transatlantic crew. Hinton, who pilots the NC-4 has been connected with naval aviation from the beginning. Rodd, the Radio Operator, has served in that branch ever since our entrance into the war. Rhodes gained his position as mechanic on the NC-4 on account of his knowledge of Liberty Motors. The other men who are at present attached to the crew are: Lieutenant (j.g.) J. B. Anderson, xerographer; Ensign P. Talbot, assistant pilot; and Warrant Machinist L. Moore and Chief Machinist...