Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Whereas technical and vocational books are supplied in abundance to our men abroad by means of the A. L. A. War Service, the provision of all other good reading depends on gifts only. Current magazines, as well as readable books, are especially desired. Members of the University are requested to give whatever they can spare either to the Phillips Brooks House clothing collectors or to Dr. C. O. S. Mawson, of the A. L. A. Overseas Dispatch Office, in the basement of Widener Library...
...University Register will not be issued this year but the board for next year has been chosen and the 1919-20 Register will contain the necessary additional data to make the statistics complete, including those for this year, 1918-19. Because of the war conditions under which the last Register was published it was necessarily not as elaborate as in normal years. The 1919-20 publication will be entirely on the old basis including all details customarily printed in former issues...
...some branch of sport. So far, the lack of both athletic fields and clubhouse facilities has been the greatest handicap in interesting more men in athletics and physical exercise. The new building would serve as a memorial to the three major sport captains who were killed in the world war John Overton. Albert Sturtevant, and Alexander Wilson...
...land for the present bowl was purchased six or seven years ago, enough adjoining real estate was secured to allow all sorts of athletic grounds for the development of football, baseball, tennis, gold, lacrosse, and any other sports which interested the undergraduates. The abolition of intercollegiate athletic during the war cut deeply into Yale's plans for sport expansion, but Dr. Alfred H. Sharpe, the new director of athletics who will come to Yale next fall, has promised to assist in both the development of the athletic real estate plant and the erection of buildings large and well-equipped enough...
...eating their way' beneath the mass of unworthy plays which we have to deal with. By 'unworthy' plays I mean the type commonly known as what the public wants,' but which it really does not want at all. The frivolous, plotless play has been largely brought on by the war, under the excuse of giving people something they can follow without thought or effort; but in such light productions, the mind is much more liable to stray back to its original trouble instead of being directed in another channel. A play of depth, tangibly constructed, is of far more value...