Word: wars
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...good to believe that Class Day is with us again, the same old rollicking reunion of many pre-war season. Downed for a time by the exigencies of war-time, "it comes up smiling" quite as expansively as of yore, and many are the prophets among the returning "grads" who declare that the jollity of the occasion will smash all previous records to atoms...
...War Poetry of Inestimable Service...
...speaker went on to test the attitude of poets towards the ideal of liberty, and the desire for peace. "The war poetry of the last five years have wrought one inestimable service: it has told the pities truth, not only about the battlefield, but about the wrath and hate and greed that are coiled around the foundations of Europe. It says little of the pomp and circumstances of glorious war; it goes straight to the human facts underlying war; it shows that worldwide peace is conditioned upon the concrete and fundamental issues of justice, liberty, and fellowship...
...slightest need this year to hope that spreads and dinners will be a success, or that all will have a good time. No acute observer is needed to tell us that joy is in the air, that celebration is at the same high pitch as one any pre-war Class Day, and that both will reign triumphant until the last observation-train pulls out of New London Friday night, to the tune of "This is Harvard's Day." Fully conscious of the spirit of the occasion, we rise to drink a toast to the graduates, and to wish them...
...collection of French and English war posters, loaned by Clark university, is now on exhibition in the Treasure Room of the Widener Library. In the same room is a portrait of Colonel Paul Azan by Miss Hazelton. The posters and picture are to remain on exhibition all week and may be seen every day from 9 until 5.30 o'clock