Ohio History Journal

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THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY IN THE

THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY IN THE

WORLD WAR*

 

 

BY PROFESSOR WILBUR H. SIEBERT

 

THE UNIVERSITY'S CONNECTION WITH THE

NATIONAL DEFENSE ACT

In 1920 the War Records Committee of the Mas-

sachusetts Institute of Technology published a large

and handsomely illustrated volume of nearly 750 pages,

entitled Technology's War Record.  In March, 1922,

the Harvard University Press issued the second volume

of Memoirs of the Harvard Dead in the War Against

Germany, which covers the period from April 6, 1917,

to April 6, 1918. Both of these institutions of learing,

as well as many others in the land, have records in the

World War which they and the country at large may

well be proud of.  As the trustees of the Ohio State

University decided some time ago to include the story

of Ohio State's participation in the world conflict in the

semicentennial history of this institution - a story that

I have been much occupied with for some months past

- I have thought that I could not do better than to give

you a partial prospectus of this story.  A prospectus

presumably contains information about a proposed un-

dertaking, and should present such a summary as to

arouse the interest of those to whom it is addressed in

that undertaking when it shall have been completed. A

 

* Read at the joint meeting of the Ohio Valley Historical Associa-

tion and the Ohio History Teachers' Association, Columbus, Ohio,

November 12, 1921.

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