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...book, but, alas, no longer The Hundred Thousand. At the beginning of the war he enlisted in a well-known Highland regiment, in spite of the fact that his thirty-eight years put him almost over the age limit for military service. Then came six months of arduous training at Aldershot with the other members of the motley collection known as Kitchener's mob, or "K(1)". In April, 1914, he was sent to France, where his distinguished conduct soon raised him to the rank of captain. His regiment suffered heavily in the famous "Battle of the Slag Heaps...
...Harvard men with a lusty Harvard cheer, and receive the right hand of fellowship. These same lads whom you will see attending your football game will probably be among the first to give their lives for their country, should the cause ever come. They are spending four arduous years of their life in preparing for the event, while the undergraduate is enjoying four years of the best the land can give him. Is it not well, then, to recognize the debt we owe to the lad who has taken up his career in order that the good things of civilization...
...fight to maintain high ideals. There is no reason why the advice and inspiration contained in this generous gift should be limited to the Freshmen. anyone who buys the book will find something helpful, something which will make the world seem brighter and the daily tasks less arduous...
...University squad is in for a hard and gruelling week of work. Coach Haughton has laid out a program of practice that will undoubtedly tax the men to the utmost, and it is certain that the next three days, at least, will see the stiffest and most arduous playing that the University has had this year...
After a deadlock which lasted far into the night, Frederic Burnedham Withington '15, of Honolulu, Hawaii, was last evening elected second assistant manager of the chess team. Young Withington is well fitted for the arduous duties attendant on his new position, as the accompanying photograph--taken just as he was about to manage his first match--shows...