Word: overnight
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Twenty miles south of Dijon, France, an American university, which gives thoroughly adequate instruction in all the recognized courses given in most colleges, has sprung up almost overnight. Beaune University, lately called into existence by and for the American Expeditionary Forces, already boasts one of the finest educational plants in the world. Within a space of time measured not merely by months but by weeks, army engineers have succeeded in converting army stores and supplies into a vast collegiate equipment including laboratories, gymnasium, class and demonstration rooms, as well as vocational work-rooms of many sorts, all in a surprisingly...
...Mass athletics came overnight. It was shown that a whole camp could be organized so that every man could have his fun and make his athletics a direct contribution to his soldiery development. No man was neglected. There were no bleacherites because every man was a participant...
...Books. 1915-16 1916-17 Recorded at Loan Desk: 1. Lent for home use, 55,730 60,621 2. Reading room use, 45,415 54,233 3. Study use, 1,254 1,598 4. Stall use, 5,789 11,269 Total, 108,188 127,721 Overnight use of Reference Books: General reading room, 14,612 13,348 Lower reading room, 6,332 5,421 (formerly Harvard Hall...
...those who shelter dark fears that our nation with difficulty may raise a national army of five hundred thousand men, whose fortitude is equal to the task which must be done, it may be pointed out, unless someone has been deceived, such an army might be raised overnight from only those who are most eager to volunteer. Entirely disregarding that now historic million which was to spring to arms in the same short time, there were two hundred thousand men eagerly anxious to obtain admission to the officers' training camps. Their pristine patriotism may not be considered to have lost...
...would be well if we could put off till tomorrow what seems obnoxious today. But war will not be put off, not by the desires of one nation, nor the delay of its young men. Preparation against calamity takes long. Yet calamity itself comes suddenly, overnight. We are so near war now that the sinking of one American ship, the wanton destruction of American lives, would draw us inevitably into the maelstrom...