Word: callings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...second call for candidates for the University debating manager competition has been issued. Those who failed to come out yesterday will not be seriously handicapped, but should report as soon as possible to R. S. Tucker '18 at Holworthy...
...creation of an army calls for the services of more men than the soldiers themselves. Among the most important of those whose duty it is to keep a fighter at the front are the physicians and surgeons. Unlike recruits for the infantry, the engineers, or the more essentially military branches doctors must be very thoroughly trained before entering the service. Medical schools have been obliged to hurry the courses for their students in order to furnish as soon as possible a large number of graduates for service in the Army or Navy. By eliminating the usual summer vacation, Tufts...
...time when the young man's fancy turns to the romantic, Von Hindenberg feels the call of Paris. Annually he longs for the life of the Quartier Latin, and annually he is forced to spend the summer months commuting from Russia to France. But the old game of war is not as amusing as formerly, the Bolsheviki refuse to go near the Mazurian Lakes, and the German people is loth to waste any more good nails on a wooden image of the Kaiser's right-hand...
...remaining advocates of the "informal system," alone opposed to big games at this time. Will there now be a new expression from those two institutions of their views on the matter? Athletics of the stamp advocated by Secretaries Daniels and Baker and by the Intercollegiate Athletic Association do not call for a return to the glamor and expense of the old regime. Briefly they advocate a system somewhat similar to that in use at West Point, minimized running expenses, little practice and a team that represents the institution and which plays numerous outside games with teams. --Yale News
...that we sweat and slave greatly, but there somehow seems to be a nervous effort and tightening in driving under fire which takes it out of one physically. The result is that after our 'spells' of 24 or 48 hours we sink into lethargic repose until the next call. The days seem all alike--except that we are served 'chocolat' instead of black, sugarless coffee on Sunday mornings--and they slip by, unsung, into the tumbled yesterdays of 'a little while ago.' I was in tremendous luck to be able to 'graft' my way into this section...