Word: booked
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...expected to bring a selection, the reading or recitation of which will not take more than five minutes. There are in all eight male parts in the spring plays, and two complete casts will, for a while, be retained. All candidates for parts must sign up in the blue-book at Leavitt & Peirce's at once...
...four plays selected by the Dramatic Club for their spring production have been postponed from this afternoon until Monday, on which day they will be held in the Trophy Room of the Union from 2 until 5 o'clock. Candidates must sign up for trials in the blue-book at Leavitt and Peirce's. Each candidate will be expected to bring a selection, the reading or recitation of which will not occupy more than five minutes. There are in all eight male parts in the spring plays. Two complete casts will, for a while, be retained for each...
...Self-Helps for the Citizen Soldier," by Captain James A. Moss, U.S.A., and (George Banta Publishing Company), is a little book which will be of great value to the man who has not much time to devote to military study, but who nevertheless wishes to do his part, that, in war time, he will not be absolutely "green." The volume does not claim to be a manual; it is merely a guide, whereby "the civilian may inform himself in a general way concerning military rudiments and other military matters,...may better understand the general nature of things military...
...book proper begins with a brief statement of the nature of war, and a summary of the military history and military policy of the United States. The first chapter also includes a refutation of the popular fallacies of our belief in our security from war, and in our ability to meet it without previous preparation, should it ever come. The second chapter discusses in detail the defences of the United States, and their organization. Chapter III depicts the enormous difficulties in the way of raising and supplying a volunteer army of the size we should need today, were we called...
There follows a sketch of the organized militia, and of the various summer military camps. Chapter XII is a narrative of a battle as it is really fought, explanatory of the part played by the various branches of the service, officers and men. The remainder of the book consists of advice to citizens in time of peace, and a creed for soldiers in time...