Word: wars
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Simonds gained an international reputation early in the war by his articles upon the strategic positions of the opposing armies. He has since gained added fame as a writer upon the conditions and aims of the warring countries...
...great cause can be served behind the firing line as well as on it. Although he has written chiefly through The Times and The Tribune, of New York, there is scarcely a paper throughout the country which has not given space to his analytical and farsighted articles upon the war. As befitting the distinguished reward that has come to him, his prolific writings have done much to clarify the mind of America upon the justice of the cause which was demanding more and more sacrifice from us. Priceless as is the honor accorded, such a service is eminently worthy...
Yale's Board of Athletic Control, at its first meeting since America's entry into the World War adopted a set of radical alterations in the general athletic policy. The changes which were made were presented to the board in a petition from the undergraduates, and in some cases varied widely from the plans which have been under consideration by the alumni who have conferred with the University and Princeton for the control of athletics in the triangular league...
Approximately 36 per cent of the alumni and undergraduates of the University have been engaged actively in war work, while the service record of all college men in this country puts the number of those who took part in the war at only about 18 per cent, just half the University's record. Further statistics have been complied by the CRIMSON, which show that the men from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton served the nation equally well during the emergency, no one institution distinguishing itself above the others for its measure of sacrifice. It is evident that...
...killed. 21 per cent of the University's Faculty have been absent on Government service, and 13 per cent of Yale's. The number of professors on leave of absence from Princeton is not known, though almost 55 per cent of her faculty were engaged in some form of war work, the majority of them remaining, however, at the college...