Название: World war record
Издательство: Boston University
Страниц: 390
Формат: PDF
Размер: 22 Мб
Качество: Хорошее
Год: 1920
Язык: английский
Soon after the signing of the armistice, in 1918, the National Government requested the colleges and universities of the country to prepare an official record of their war activities. In response to this request the Trustees of Boston University authorized the preparation of such a record and made an appropriation to defray the cost of publication. It was decided to include in the volume the war record of every person who at any time had been a member of the university body. In accordance with this decision, forty thousand questionnaires were mailed. The response was unexpectedly large. Over three thousand questionnaires were filled out and returned.
Undoubtedly, very many, especially those mailed to the men at the front, failed to reach the persons addressed. Every effort was subsequently made to reach these men. Newspaper clues were followed; many letters were written to friends and relatives of the men who had failed to report. After the return of the troops from abroad, a second questionnaire was forwarded to the home address of those who had failed to receive the first. These subsidiary eiforts secured several hundred belated questionnaires.
