Word: wars
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...annual dinner of the Phillips Brooks House Association held in the Union last night at which the officers of the Standing Committees rendered their reports for the past year it was shown that the work of the Association had increased, and had adapted itself very successfully to war conditions in the past year, especially in connection with the military and naval units at the University. That Americanization at home and reconstruction abroad are the two great post-war problems facing the college man was also emphatically brought out. The reports follow in full...
...formerly associated with Brooks House have been absent in service and that the support given by the undergraduate body naturally diminishes in proportion to the decrease in enrollment, nevertheless the activities of the association were successfully adjusted to meet the special needs growing out of the unusual war conditions in the autumn and the equally difficult period of transition to a normal basis that followed the Armistice. But it is more fitting to outline in a general way the year's activities and let the actual facts prove the success or failure of the Association's efforts...
...needs. The officers and members of Executive Cabinet of the Association were largely absent in service; and in place of the usual Freshman class the newly organized S. A. T. C. occupied the Freshman Dormitories--the Marine Section and Naval Unit occupied other University dormitories. Accordingly, a special War Cabinet under the presidency of R. H. Howe '19 was constituted to carry on the activities of the Association. H. M. Thurston '16 was appointed Graduate Secretary, October 25. It was necessary to procure a place for recreation, hospitality, entertainment and opportunity for reading and writing...
...Instrumental Clubs has been arranged for the evening of May 24 to take place in Jordan Hall. In the past it has been customary to hold the dual concert on the evening before the Yale football game, but this has been impossible for several years on account of the war. The last regular joint concert of the clubs of the two universities was held at New Haven in the fall...
Plans are being made to put the clubs back on a pre-war basis for the remainder of the year. In addition to the Yale concert, entertainments have been arranged for April 21, at the Harvard Club of Boston; on April 29, at Norwood, and on May 2, at Fall River. The last two of these concerts will be followed by dances, and will be over-night trips...