Word: wars
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...year ago the colleges were disorganized by the necessities of war and the changes they had to make to meet the demand for officers' training camps. As educational institutions they had almost ceased to function. They were military camps first and colleges afterward...
Such a situation was perhaps to be expected. Even before the war the practical arts were in the ascendancy. Now as a self-evident result of the war they are still more in the ascendancy. It is not an unhealthy condition, and it will not be a positively unhealthy condition until the liberal arts colleges show actual losses...
...some 1,200,000 men. Of course, with typical Teutonic subtlety, this force is camouflaged in various ways: Home Guards, Police, and the 400,000 standing army allowed by the Allies to combat Bolshevism. The fact remains, however, that Germany has these men, all armed with the latest war appliances. In them the old Hohenzollern military spirit is rejuvenated...
...Wilson M.Arch '13 and P. C. Knowlton M.Arch '14, winners of the Architectural Travelling Fellowships given by the University in 1916 and 1917, sailed for Europe recently to take advantage of the opportunities offered them under the scholarships which, because of the war, they were unable to take at the time they received them...
...which capacity he served until 1895. From 1905-16 he acted as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and in this position had practically the entire charge of British Foreign Affairs during the trying days of the fall of 1914, immediately preceding and following England's entrance into the war. He resigned his office in 1916, and thereafter has been a Member of Parliament...