As a large contingent of students (reportedly 38%) were Jewish in 1972, the University seriously considered a student request to cancel classes on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year. While they never cancelled the classes that day, the…
The war may have ended in 1918, but the work of mending soldiers’ bodies and minds continued. Shell-shocked soldiers returning from the front now needed help with adapting to life back in the United States. Shell shock thus became a civilian…
Second Johannes Opsopaeus edition. The earliest exposure of the Greek Sibylline prophecies as post-classical inventions; includes the commentaries of Xystus Betuleius or Sixt Birck and Sébastien Châteillon.
These pages depict the ROTC, a new group growing in stature on campus as the possibility of the US entering the war grew stronger. View the entire 1917 Hullabaloo yearbook.
William Osler, one of the founding physicians of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, had a son, Edward Revere Osler. In 1915 Revere, as he was known, dropped out of Oxford’s Christ Church College to join the war effort. In August 1917, serving in Belgium…