Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...officers of the Sophomore Class have decided to hold a collection for additional funds beginning today and lasting until Thursday night, and have appointed a finance committee to canvass the class. Last year, the number of Freshmen was cut down, on account of the war, but the expenses of the class were even greater than usual. A considerable sum was spent in subsidizing the Red Book, which left the class with only a slight balance this fall...
Recent events in Paris have brought even more clearly to our attention an essential fact that the probable formation of a League of Nations tempts us constantly to forget: namely, that though war may be restricted, reduced in intensity, limited in size and scope, it can never be forever eradicated from this planet as long as man remains warm-blooded, and ideals and principles of right endure for him to defend...
...present diminished need of armed force, is hard for the moment to overcome. Nevertheless, the time now seems at hand for us to swing back again to a normally balanced viewpoint on the subject. In other colleges the tide is already turning toward a renewed preparedness for possible war. At Princeton men are already signing up, though slowly at first, for the Field Artillery Unit to be formed there this summer. Columbia has established a form of military department, in which Government instructors will give courses designed to fit men for eventual commissions in the Infantry, Artillery, and Signal Service...
...established by Colonel Goetz. The Harvard Aeronautical Society is circulating a petition to the Faculty, asking for the installation of an aviation course at Harvard. Other agencies are at work among us at the University, asking of us a return to the spirit in which we helped win the war, but as yet they have received scant attention from the undergraduate body...
...summer approaches, with its fresh opportunities for military training, our normal responsibilities as citizens again appear in their true light. In meeting those responsibilities we may well turn our minds back to the national situation two years ago. April 7th, 1917, was our first full day at war with Germany, and though ultimately all was well, we entered that war unready...