Word: wars
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Bliss was educated at Amherst College, Union Theological Seminary, and the Universities of Oxford and Goeffinger. He remained at his post in Turkey throughout the war, leaving only after the armistice. The college was founded in 1868, and is chartered under the laws of the state of New York. Besides the academic department, it has a medical school, a business school, and an archaeological institute. In 1913 1000 students were enrolled in all departments...
...following casualties have been received by the University War Records Office since the closing of the spring term of College...
Early estimates and such figures as are now available indicate that when the University opens its gates next Monday, September 22, for the 283d year of its existence, the enrollment will be approximately what it was before the war, although it may not be quite as great as in the big years just before the outbreak of hostilities. From the rental of college and private dormitories, the entrance examination figures of the incoming class, and other sources, it is estimated that the enrollment will be well over...
...special sessions, the former with 307 men and the latter with 127; the work of the Medical School and the Engineering School also ran over into the summer months, to make it possible for those men who had dropped out to enter the army or navy during the war to make up a full year's work from January, 1919, to September. Altogether, more than 3,000 Harvard students have been taking the special summer courses since the college and the various schools formally ended their 1918-19 year last June. It is by far the biggest summer record...
...entered its Sophomore year. There will also be certain important changes in the college itself. Athletics for Freshmen will be compulsory, according to the plan devised last spring by the Athletic Committee and approved by the Faculty and the Governing Boards in June. In addition, Harvard, which, during the war, trained so many infantrymen for the government, will for the first time see the establishment of an artillery R. O. T. C. For the most part, however, the University will for the first time in three years, be back on its old footing