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Such a move will be most beneficial. In the first place, almost all the fighters have seriously endangered their prospects of success in business. Time which would otherwise have been spent in practising some trade or profession and in keeping ahead of some rival has been used for a nobler cause. The veteran is not only likely to be losing his position, but also to forget those fine bits of knowledge on which he relied for advancement. In the second place, foreign armies include many men taken from the middle of their college career. Boys who have not even completed...
...proposed idea, everybody would rise one hour earlier, and therefore go to bed an hour earlier, for we do not believe anyone will keep to his accustomed habits if he loses sleep thereby. At the time the change is scheduled to go into effect, the sun will rise almost half an hour sooner than now. The man who gets up at 6.15 therefore, instead of 7.15, can dress himself by daylight. Certainly there will be no wasted electricity here. On the other end, hower, he goes to bed at 10 o'clock in place of 11, and so saves...
Among the 56 Y. M. C. A. secretaries who sailed recently for France from an Atlantic port, two University graduates were included. They constitute a part of the army of Red Triangle workers going to Europe almost daily to help the Y. M. C. A. meet the needs of the war. More than 600 have already gone and more will follow until the Association is able to look out for every American soldier wherever he may be stationed...
...Navy is at present in urgent need of binoculars, spy-glasses and telescopes for use against submarines. Heretofore the United States has been obliged to rely almost entirely upon foreign countries for its supply of such articles. These channels are now closed, and it has become necessary to appeal to the patriotism of private owners to furnish "eyes for the Navy...
Since February, 1917, nearly 150 colleges, technical schools and universities organized as the Intercollegiate Intelligence Bureau have been giving special aid to the country. Brought into existence almost at the direct request of the Secretaries of War and the Navy, the Bureau has been greatly used by Government departments. About 4,000 men of specialized training have been placed at important war work on the request of Government officers for men having a variety of training and experience...