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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Romance Seminary. Meeting Widener Y...
...Yale News published in Wednesday's issue a letter, received from a graduate who has been working with the American Y. M. C. A. in the prison camps of the warring countries of Europe. This work has received little publicity in the country on account of the necessity of doing the work as quietly as possible in the early months of the war when the chief problem was to obtain permission of the governments to perform this service. It was only careful diplomatic work and promises to do in one country just what was being done in the enemy...
Until the Association opens its work in a camp, there is nothing for the prisoners to do. Little opportunity is given for exercise. Once the Y. M. C. A. has been organized fully, there are entertainments, work provided, trades to be resumed, educational classes to be attended and religious services. All this is brought about, not by workers from without, but by using the talent at hand, for among the prisoners there are professors, lawyers, financiers, doctors, ministers, athletes and representatives of every trade...
...Cambridge, if we may believe a London weekly with the thought that students are told, "If you cannot read the Iliad you can act it." The pleasure of putting this into Greek verse might have compensated Porson for the blow the step would have struck him. --The Nation (N. Y...
...their student, alumni and total enrolments as appearing "The Phillipian," Phillips Andover Academy: Colleges Students Alum. Harvard, 417 1,065 Yale, 187 668 Princeton, 245 475 Columbia, 42 637 Cornell, 90 493 Univ. of Pa. . 83 290 Williams, 78 165 Dartmouth, 77 126 M. I. T., 26 174 N. Y. University, 16 180 Amherst, 25 113 Brown, 32 71 Stevens...