Word: wars
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University is deeply sensible of the significant honor accorded it by the large and ever increasing number of the faculty who are engaged in the many ramifications of war work at the request of the Government. As the exodus of professors goes steadily on, however, the graduates and undergraduates of the University are commencing to wonder with dismay when the drain upon the teaching staff is to end. A glance at the pamphlet of courses, with its "omitted in 1918-19" extending over page after page in almost unbroken sequence, shows to what a great degree the faculty is depleted...
...disappointment to the latter to find so many desirable courses, once taught by professors, given by men of lower rank and less experience due to the absence of the former. After the free and willing sacrifices which all connected with the University have made during the war surely it cannot be unreasonably selfish to regard the continued depletion of the faculty as the over doing of a good thing. Some consideration should be given to the claims which the students have upon the time and attention of the professors, for especially do the upperclassmen suffer a loss, which they cannot...
...these men as a foundation it would be advisable to have a pyramid of teams culminating in those which should represent the University in intercollegiate contests. If College athletics are not made accessible to every student I agree with Dean Briggs that one of the great lessons of the war will have been disregarded...
...Haven, Conn., Jan. 19 --; At a meeting, in New Haven, of about 2,000 Yale students this evening. President Lowell spoke on "A League of Free Nations as an International Safeguard Against War." President Hadley presided at the meeting which was held in Woolsey Hall. Professor Stephen Pierce Duggan, College of the City of New York represented the League of Free Nations Association...
...England are equally represented, or in which the International Army drills constantly at the Hague, understand neither the spirit nor the necessity of the time. The vital thing, at the moment, is to train men, and particularly statesmen, to the realization that conference is a better method than war for the settlement of disputes. International Government is bound to grow slowly and to encounter every degree of hesitation and scepticism. The League of Nations at the present time means nothing more than the admission that there is a common good in the world and that we must evolve a common...