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...submitted by the undergraduate War Service Committee contains a number of excellent suggestions for increasing the prestige of the Bureau, its usefulness, and its efficiency. The present policy of the staff, which is limited in numbers and in time, has been to find out the qualifications of the applicant, acquaint him with the opportunities open to him on the basis of his experience and physical shape, and let him make up his own mind as to what he should do. A number of students complained because certain possibilities had not been mentioned to them, but there is no instance...
...river's tidal conditions are unfavorable; 2) the spectators' observation cars have been dismantled; 3) most of the competing crews row on dead water, and their athletic associations, deprived of observation-car revenue, want to avoid the expense of the ten days' training necessary to acquaint their oarsmen with the Hudson's tricky currents...
...badly done. They scarcely singed the edges, left many a handsome prize for the oncoming Jap. U.S. Lieut. General Walter Krueger, commander of the Third Army, thought he could see the reason for the British failure: ignorance and insufficient explosives. He ordered an immediate training program to acquaint every combat unit under his command with the ins-&-outs of demolition...
Aside from the new bond campaign, the Liberal Union plans to continue work on a series of pamphlets outlining American aims in the war. Those pamphlets are part of the enlarged Liberal stratagem to acquaint the University and the students with what they may fight for, and awake an attitude of "cooperation with the national effort" here...
...purpose of the practice raid, which was proclaimed a great success, was to acquaint the runners and first crews with their duties. All messages were carried through the basement as the courtyard was theoretically filled with flying bomb splinters...