Soldier or Student? The Recruitment of Australian University Students in the First World War

Duché, Véronique; Léger, Diane de Saint; Russo-Batterham, Daniel

doi:10.1080/17526272.2015.1108580

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“…Intervarsity activities were impossible. In their place was a new kind of collegial spirit, as university servicemen and women were seen to be representing their institutions on the world stage (Duch e et al, 2015;Darian-Smith and Waghorne, 2016). Yet this also divided the university community, pitting Empire loyalists against critics of war, all stirred up by conscription and the overbearing feeling of duty to enlist (Damousi, 2016;Sparrow, 2007;Macintyre, 1984;Rasmussen, 2019).…”

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Australian university and medical school life during the 1919 influenza pandemic

Waghorne

2020

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PurposeThis article examines the impact of the 1919 influenza pandemic on the life and culture of Australian universities, and the curious absence of sustained discussion about the crisis in university magazines. It considers two contexts, from the perspective of the general university population, and from the particular focus of medical students.Design/methodology/approachThe primary source for this analysis is based on detailed reading of university magazines across three universities, as well as other primary and secondary literature. The article was written during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, which has limited access to some other magazines held in library collections, but the corpus of material is more than sufficient.FindingsThis article shows that the pandemic further deferred the resumption of university life after a hiatus during the First World War. The failure to identify the causal agent limited technical discussion in medical school magazines.Originality/valueThis is one of the first dedicated studies of the effect of the 1919 influenza pandemic on Australian universities. It joins a growing body of work considering the effect of the influenza on different community groups.

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Section: Resuming University Lifementioning

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Australian university and medical school life during the 1919 influenza pandemic

Waghorne

2020

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Soldier or Student? The Recruitment of Australian University Students in the First World War

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Australian university and medical school life during the 1919 influenza pandemic

Australian university and medical school life during the 1919 influenza pandemic

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