Word: calling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...revival of a special competition for the art department will be a feature of the work this spring. The men in this department will design the covers and make up the picture pages, and occasionally will be called upon to draw a serious cartoon. The photographic department will take the largest number of men as various special numbers during the second half year will call for more pictures...
Over a thousand men responded to the call of preparedness last year when the country was in no immediate danger. The Harvard Regiment placed the University in the forefront of the believers in an adequate defense for this country. Now in a time of national peril the numbers of the Harvard Regiment ought to be doubled, and a training unit of two thousand students should once again prove that Harvard recognizes her duty to the country and offers her services to the last man for the protection of the nation. The enrolment in this officers' unit will show that there...
...writers of Wednesday's communication have assumed a premise to their argument with which the present writer is unable to agree. They call the proposed system "compulsory" instead of "universal" military service--and declare that it will be undemocratic and un-Christian because it involves the compulsion of conscience. Yet they admit that the proposed law will provide for conscientious scruples. Surely they do not put much faith in our ability to administer the law justly, and surely they do not consider that we shall be so busy organizing and training the millions who will be willing to learn...
...spring at the University is the awakening of latent interest in undergraduate drama. The Hasty Pudding play has been chosen and already plans for its production are rapidly getting under way. We hear vague rumors of Pi Eta comedies and D. U. revivals, while above them all rises the call of the Dramatic Club for short plays for the spring production...
...borrowers" do not call themselves dishonest. Many of them are quite reputable young men, slightly lacking in brain, perhaps, but accredited with honesty for all that. All of them would be bitterly offended if named by an ugly and descriptive term. And yet their actions are neither more nor less than thievery. When a man takes a book from--the Library shelves under cover of his coat, or in his bag, he is robbing every other man who may wish to read that book...