Word: assisting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...assist any members of the University who intend to enter the trials, material is available at the desk of the Union Reading Room of the Widener Library...
...undergraduate in his field of concentration. The responsibility is and should be his own. Those men who "take advantage" of the greater freedom allowed by the new spirit are in the minority, the rest will make increasing good use of it as it is granted. "External agencies assist but the essential thing is self-education. . . .If the object is merely to do well in a course it is far less than if it is the mastery of a field of thought." As that attitude spreads there is ever more cause to be thankful for the "humanization" of colleges...
...open until three o'clock every afternoon to members of the University who wish to play basketball. The small court will be open from three until five o'clock, Mr. R. M. Ozinun, 1G.Ed., the instructor, will be at the gymnasium from 2 until 4.45 o'clock daily to assist men in any way possible and to arrange tournament schedules for all teams that desire...
This destroyer service was performed on fully manned vessels ably commanded and officered by experienced men ready at all times to advise and assist the new hands; but, remarkable as was the achievement of these recruits, it was at least equalled by that of the college bred men who manned and successfully handled the little fleet of over one hundred sub-chasers that were sent "over there" to fight the elusive submarine. In my book, The Victory at Sea, a Chapter entitled American College Boys and Subchasers, opens with the following statement...
...that this tiny vessel, with the 'listening devices' which made it so efficient, represented one of the most satisfactory direct answers' to the submarine which had been developed by the war. Had it not been that the war ended before enough destroyers could be spared from convoy duty to assist, with their greater speed and offensive power, hunting groups of these tiny craft, it is certain that they would soon have become a still more important factor in destroying submarines and in interfering with their operations...