Word: wars
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Altogether it is a rare tribute to American education and the fundamental soundness of its system that this first year after the war finds it in such a genuinely healthy condition...
...Boston Transcript from the returns of more than 60 institutions representing every type of higher education in every part of the country. It is larger by 42 per cent than in 1918 and larger by 21 per cent than in 1916, the record-breaking year of pre-war prosperity. So immense and insistent has been the flow of men, that for many colleges the old-time problem of how to attract more students has given way to the problem of how to take care of the students who want to enter...
During the war he served for a time as boatswain on the U. S. S. Virginia, seeing foreign service in that capacity. On the return of the Virginia he was transferred to the First Naval District, where he acted as head swimming instructor. A resident of Brookline, Sutherland has long been a member of the Brookline Swimming Club...
...together to aid the nation-wide campaign for the Actors' Fund of America. All members of the University are especially invited to attend this entertainment and ball and to express publicly their appreciation of the work that the actors and actresses of this country have been doing throughout the war...
...games conducted under strict physical requirements. Defenders of the college sport pointed out that with one exception the victims were players who entered the game without expert training. The small number of fatalities this year was remarkable, as the game was played even more extensively than in pre-war days...