Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Drawn to France by the war, Americans in general and college men in particular have learned for the first time the opportunities for broadening study and advanced research offered in her ancient schools and universities. There is reason to believe that not a few collegians who first landed on her shores equipped with "tin hat" and rifle intend to arrive next time armed with "mortar board" and note-book. To such men, the American University Union will provide as valuable and as necessary a nucleus of home influence in time of peace as it has in time...
Last day for receiving theses of candidates for the degree of Ph.D. in 1919 in the Divisions of Ancient Languages, of Modern Languages, and of History, Government, and Economics...
...contents of this number are in any event plenty, and excellent. The diversity is striking. We glimpse the ancient Maine of sailing-vessel days and the still more removed Russia of 1915; faculty salaries and freshman short-comings do not crowd out plays and "the other man's wife" and a charming song. The cartoonist has done his best--and worst--with the ineffable stipend of the poor harmless drudge. And a clever actress gets her picture in the paper...
Another step to eradicate the traces of war and to return the University to its old-time customs has been taken. The Senior Dormitories are once more being opened to Seniors only and each succeeding class will again make its last home together in the ancient rooms of the Yard. The Class of 1920 has the privilege of being the first in two years to spend its last year as a body. Its union in the Freshman dormitories is fittingly closed by a reunion in Senior dormitories...
...world was not going back to the old conditions that prevailed before the war. Many of them have no personal sympathy with this new state of affairs or liking for the inexorable facts of the case. They would much prefer to have the world drop comfortably back into the ancient order of things and be satisfied to let well enough alone, but they realize that it cannot be, and they are not such fools as to believe that the tide of events can be swept back...