Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Professor Whipple expects to stay at the University throughout the first-half year, but he will begin immediately to organize this new and important division. In February he will go to Geneva, Switzerland, the headquarters of the League of Red Cross Societies. He will probably spend several months in the Balkans and the Near East, returning in September...
...America, has been secured as coach for the University fencing team for the coming season. Professor Danguay coached the New York Fencing Club last year. Previous to his engagement in New York, he had taught several years in France. Professor Leslabay, the former University coach is now in Switzerland...
Oswald Garrison Villard '93, editor of "The Nation," who has just returned from a four and one-half months' trip to France, Switzerland, and Germany, in an interview in New York, stated that nothing had impressed him more than the growing dissatisfaction with the press...
...clothing which has been gathered will be distributed in the following manner; one case to the Italian War Relief Fund of America; one case to the Y. M. C. A. for the relief of destitute students in Switzerland; and the balance to The Cambridge Red Cross for shipment overseas. All of the military equipment will to turned over to the Morgan Memorial Institute, a large social service institution in Boston, which has offered to make over the uniforms into ordinary wearing apparel. The text-books will be placed in the Phillips Brooks House Loan Library, while the fiction works...
...first, the prescription of universal physical training in all schools on a program laid down by the national government; secondly, the cultivation, as a national sport, of shooting at a mark, through voluntary organizations aided by the government. These provisions have proved highly beneficial to the entire population of Switzerland--as much for industrial uses as for military...