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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Word has been received from Paris by the American Field Service that the French Army of the Orient has awarded war crosses to three former members of the University who were in the section that recently returned from the Balkans. Those who have been decorated are William Emersen '95, H. B. Palmer '10, both of New York, N. Y., and J. M. Walker '09, of Newburyport. According to dispatches, the medals were awarded for courageous action in removing wounded men in the region of Monastir, between December, 1916, and October, 1917. The work of these men was particularly noteworthy during...
...taking no interest in rowing. A year ago at this time the boathouse was packed with ambitious oarsmen; now at most two or three report. Possibly the members of the University are working too hand to take an hour off every few afternoons, but somehow we doubt it. The word "informal" should not carry with it any sort of stigma, especially as the crew is probably to row a similar Yale organization this spring...
...would be sadly mutilated, and Turkey would be a mere wreck. Nevertheless, these terms are a good standard to set, they are well worth fighting for, but before we can expect to see them realized and not just idealistic hopes, we shall have to argue with the Kaiser by word of gun, not solely by conferences and newspaper reports...
...when American students began to study at German universities, this influence has grown until in all too many places it is a distinctly dominant force. The chief objection to the German method as pointed out in this Yale publication is its "soul-less" quality, Efficiency has been the watch-word; masses of information have been the result. This system has not only been applied to science, where it is natural, though mistaken, but it has gone into the field of literature and art. It is time to get away from this influence. It has been with us too long. Although...
...knew the spirit of the thing he was fighting. He had seen Prussianism with its disguise of respectability removed. He had seen the lauded civilization of Germany stripped naked, and he thanked God in his soul that war had checked the spread of this thing by commerce and printed word, by subtle politics and subtler philosophy--had checked its peaceful permeation of the world's free nations before they had succumbed wholly to its spell...