Word: ages
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...them to be worthy of the great trials which are to come. They may go "over" as privates, they may be given commissions very soon, but whatever happens to them they are objects of envy to those of us who are doomed to wait until we too become of age. They are departing on the "Great Adventure"; we are still training for that opportunity...
...athletic status of men who have taken the special finals and are waiting to go to the June under-age camp, will also be settled if possible at tonight's meeting. It is likely that the committee will, in addition, discuss the success of athletics as carried on this spring, and will consider their advisability of continuing a similar program next year...
...HAVEN, CONN., MAY 3, 1918.--All members of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps at Yale, 17 years old or over who are not eligible for the Fourth Officers' Training Camp this spring because of age limitation, will be sent to Camp Jackson, Columbia, S. C., this summer for one month's training. The above cantonment, which possesses an artillery replacement depot, will afford excellent facilities for instructing the Yale Battery...
...respect and admire the spirit that makes the student who is under age desire to render immediate service in the war, especially where there is personal danger; and yet to do so may not be the greatest service he can render to the country. Men who are responsible for the conduct of the war, who see the question in the large, who are thinking of the human resources of the nation as a whole, seem to be generally of opinion that college students will be in the end more profitable if they continue their education until they are of age...
...opinion of such a man surely deserves careful consideration by undergraduates and it would, I think, be concurred in by most older men who have thought much about the conduct of the war. At present there is no urgent demand for men under age. There are as many men on the draft lists as the War Department can call out and use in the immediate future; but if students are to follow the advice of the CRIMSON there will soon be a lack of educated young men coming of age...