Word: wars
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...statutory ban on the manufacture and sale of wine and beer, which is to go into effect in accordance with law on July 1. To be sure, a technical case of some strength can be presented in support of the recommendation, in view of the fact that the war prohibition act to which the President refers was designed "for the national security and defense by stimulating agriculture and facilitating the distribution of agricultural products...
...percentage of American college men who gave up their lives in the Civil War is much larger than that of those who made the great sacrifice in the present war, although the total number is much smaller. The University's percentage of 11.2 in the war of secession is more than eight per cent, greater than the present rate, but only 1,232 students took part in that struggle, of whom 138 died...
Only five colleges besides the University have lost more than one hundred men in the present war, but in some cases a percentage as high as ten has been reported. Yale with 186, Cornell with 158, Columbia with 128, and Princeton with 120 are the other universities that have suffered most heavily...
...from students' bench and professors' chair, of whom 604 gave up their lives, or somewhat more than 10 per-cent. Similar contributions have been made by Oxford and Cambridge, and by other English and Scotch universities. Over 11,176 Oxford men had enrolled by the middle of the war, and afterward the number was much greater; 1,412 had laid down their lives and 100 were missing. In the University of Cambridge, of 13,128 past and present ent members enrolled at one time, 1,405 made the great sacrifice and 212 were missing. It may be added that...
Tomorrow evening at 8.15 o'clock, the 18th annual joint concert of the University and Yale Musical Clubs will take place at Jordan Hall. This performance will mark the resumption of the annual affair, which has been postponed for the last two years on account of the war...