Word: actions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Every student in College who, at the beginning or the end of the Christmas recess, fails to register at the time set for that purpose may be required to pay the Bursar a fee of $5 before being permitted to register. Payment of this fee does not preclude action by the Administrative Board in the cases of students who neglect to register...
...Philadelphia will clash in one of the championship intersectional service games of the East. Both teams contain University players. E. W. Mahan '16, captain of the University eleven which defeated Yale 41 to 0, is the leader of the Philadelphia squad. The Navy Yard team, which has been in action in the Stadium, contains several University players, although Adams of Brown is the captain...
...number of battles fought and armies engaged, this has been a singularly anonymous war. We have been kept familiar through the official dispatches with the names of the more important generals at headquarters, and at intervals have been permitted to read the names of some of the commanders in action. The number has, however, been small in comparison with the numbers engaged and very few stars have as yet emblazoned the military firmament...
...winning successes in every country of Europe, when public opinion was discouraged, and ominous clamors for peace were being heard. But roused by the confidence and determination of their chief, English sailors won undying fame for England. Today in similar circumstances a new leader sounds a new call for action, and in all the Allied countries arise the hopes for a decisive and final blow. Under leaders who have combined military genius and the art of inspiring, the English have never been stopped. The next few days will show whether Haig and Byng can show such a combination...
...pessimist, lately at the height of his powers, suffers a serious repulse. His old standby, the submarine campaign, will soon be useless. His discomfort and lack of subjects prevent our hearing how bad conditions are. Although the warnings of a true pessimist may spur us on to more vigorous action, yet they tend to bring comfort to our enemies. Too much optimism, however, is little more valuable, in spite of the fact that it is more agreeable. We want not the depths of pessimism, nor the heights of optimism...