Repository: UIHistories Project: War Publications - WWI Compilation 1923 - Article 16 [PAGE 5]

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-Many a Micklc Makes « Muckle" (This lecture was of special interest as preliminary Geography of the War Zone War Prices and Profiteering What the War News Means The American Farmer and the Allied Menu The World's Food Transportation Problems Milk Production . K Food Administration and Conservation War Economies in Food The World's Bread Supply Wise Selection of Food tor the Individual Rations in This and Other Lands The Meat Question Historical Features of the W ar Aims and Hopes of the German Government 7 Newspapers in W ar Service Psychical and Social Aspects of the War C. A. The Coal Problem Arming Our Forces The Alsace-Lorraine Question The Geography of the Front The World's Debt to England War Words from Washington

A. W. Jamiton to rhe thrift campaign.) J. IL, Rich Simon Litman Mr. S. J. Dunctn-CUrk Eugene Davenport .....Ji. B. Lewk .....J. M. Snodgrass Eugene Davenport Isabel Bevier Viola J. Ander n C. G. Hopkins Kurh Wheeler Lucile Whei r H. \\. Mumford L. M. Larson Ernest Birnbaum H. F. Harrington Ruckmich, K. C. Haves S, W. Parr Capt. H. D. 01 dorfer Kenneth McKenzie J. L. Rich L. M. Larson Eugene Davenport

Lectures by Visitors.—Lectures by visitors were: "Interpreting the War News", by Mr. S. J. Duncan-Clark, F e b r u a r y 20; " I t a l y ' s Part in the W a r " , by Professor Charles Upson Clark, F e b r u a r y 28; On Some War Experiences, by Lieutenant H e c t o r MacQuarrie of the British army; and the fourth, "Children of the Frontier", by Mrs. Joseph Lindon Smith, M a y 18. M r s . Smith asked t h a t two children be adopted by this^ community. As a m a t t e r of fact nineteen adoptions were made; fourteen by members of the University community, four by groups ot members of the University Club, and one from the proceeds of the Faculty Baseball Game. Each adoption represents a subscription of $72, the nineteen adoptions making a total of $1,368. Vassar Plattsburg Scholarships.—Another activity of the committee was the war-charity entertainment, " H o w France Cares for the Wounded Soldiers", of the National Surgical Dressings Committee, given on April 25. The net proceeds were $252.98, one half of which ($126.49) was placed at the disposal of the War Committee, and was used to give a scholarship to one Illinois graduate to the Vassar Plattsburg. Two more $95 scholarships to the Vassar Plattsburg were donated through the Committee, one bv the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, the other by the Student Womkn's W a r Relief Committee. Masques and Pageants.—Several masques and pageants were ^Titten and produced by William Chauncy Langdon. T h e first was u lhe Sword of America", a masque representing the entrance of America mto the war, given Thanksgiving night. T h e " T i t a n s of Freedom", which was presented at the Auditorium on Memorial Day, depicted the meeting of Washington and Lincoln to compare notes about the present war. Lincoln's birthday was celebrated by a convocation at which the principal address was made by Professor Fernand Baldensperger, captain in the French army.

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