Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...erection of a monument in a park to be laid out on the vacant ground on the south bank of the Charles River has been proposed-as a memorial to the men of Harvard who have fallen in the great war. At present the land on the further bank of the river and across Harvard Street from Soldiers Field, recently acquired by the University, is not being utilized in any way. Without much difficulty the plot could be converted into a small park which would be peculiarly appropriate as a memorial to the University men who have died in this...
...Hemenway Gymnasium, and Memorial Hall have been taken over by the school, but were inadequate to accommodate the increased enrollment. Last Fall it was necessary to erect temporary wooden barracks on the Common to provide room for this growth, but since the close of the war, the enrollment has fallen off steadily...
...system in so far as athletics for the undergraduate body are developed, and in the establishment of good athletic supervision. But in the spirit of reorganization, Yale seems to have overshot the mark and evidences a desire to win at all costs. This aspiration to retrieve the fallen Eli athletic laurels seems to have gone beyond the scope of the desired reconstruction, in the reduction of the much discussed expensive semi-professionalism of college athletics, particularly by the resumption of training tables and employment of seasonal coaches. The whole tone of the new rules is very strong and omnipotent...
...bounds and which in itself inspired all who felt it, and he was a patriot whose loyalty to his land his critics never ventured to assail. His fall sends a shudder through the world. A beacon light has gone out. A towering oak, a landmark age-old has fallen. Yale bows its head in silent tribute to this great American. YALE NEWS...
...believe, accidental, that, though various American universities at varying periods from the beginning of the War to the entrance of the United States tried to maintain hospital units, Harvard alone has been able to maintain such a service in continuous existence. All the others for varying reasons, have fallen by the wayside. During nearly two years, from its beginning in July, 1915, it was the only outward and visible bond of unity between the great branches of the Anglo-Saxon race; but it was also something more than this--it was a relation between the intellectual and cultural sides...