Word: calling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...wish to call attention again to the lecture to be given in the Union this evening by Captain C. C. Marsh of the Navy. The purpose of this talk is to present to the students of the University a plan, the details of which have not yet been worked out, for giving college men an opportunity to have the experience and training of a couple of months at sea during the summer. The merits of the suggestion are numerous. In the first place, any such trip has a democratic influence. The educated man comes into contact with others who have...
Spring baseball practice will commence within two weeks when a call for the varsity candidates and all Freshman candidates to report for practice in the Cage will be issued on February 17. All other men retained on the University squad at the close of fall practice and the baseball men who were engaged in other sports in the fall, will be called out on March 1. Other candidates will have to obtain permission from Captain Wingate in order to engage in spring practice...
Owing to the fact that many of the men in applying limited the price that they could pay, the Committee have made allotments in both entries in Matthews in the attempt to satisfy the wishes of the applicants. Each entry is approximately half-filled. If, on the second call, sufficient applications are received to fill the whole of Matthews, the south entry will receive all the improvements which have recently been added to the north entry...
President Quincy in 1837 spoke of Gore Hall as the principal ornament of the College square, and expected that but a small portion of what we now call Gore Hall would be of "sufficient capacity to contain the probable accumulation of books during the present century." As we watch the derricks pulling down the walls of this intellectual Bastile we wonder in a somewhat patronizing air at President Quincy's quaint taste and short-sighted expectations. Let us forget his taste, and think about his short-sightedness. He made his mistake in judgment because he could not see our modern...
...system is a departure from the usual scheme of issuing a general call for baseball men. In the first place the motives for this change are to give the men of University calibre the benefit of a more concentrated practice; second, to obviate the discouraging influence on a man of less ability of cutting him from the squad before he really has had a fair chance...