Word: callings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...intensive work they were required to do here in preparation for such service, to grant them their degrees. That, however, is quite a different thing from giving degrees ad libitum to all who go into the service. Princeton nevertheless recognizes that the students who respond to the call of their country at the sacrifice of their college course should receive some high official mark of distinction from their Alma Mater, and the University authorities have accordingly met this unusual situation by providing, not a meaningless degree, but a specially engraved war certificate, setting forth that the holder was a student...
...True to their expectation, promptly at the appointed time the Boche, or as they call the enemy in England, the Hun, put in his appearance. But all we or anybody else in the theatre knew about it was the noise of the anti-aircraft guns. From the sound the stories
Only one veteran of former University teams has returned this year. Gay, who was on the 1916-17 team, is acting captain and is a strong fencer. A call for new candidates has been issued. The new fencing room in Apthorp House was opened last Wednesday, and from now no practice will be held on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday afternoons of each week. Coach Leslabay, international fencing champion in 1908 and coach of last season's University team, will have charge of the squad again this year. Freshman candidates will receive special attention, and in the early part...
...there is need to support these ex-military undertakings, we shall do our part. Today we are asked to give what we can to aid stricken Halifax. What that city needs above all things is money. Conditions there are such that the entire East must respond to the call for help in order to relieve the fearful suffering. It is likewise most necessary to reconstruct and reorganize completely and immediately a port of so great importance to Canada and to the Allies. We are not asked to deprive ourselves of our entire fortunes for this cause. But let each student...
...Massachusetts Forestry Association has issued a call to all students who wish to earn some money during the Christmas vacation by chopping wood in various parts of the State. This action has been prompted by the threatened shortage in the supply of coal during the winter and the necessity of increasing the available supply of wood for fuel, especially for the cities. Board and lodging will be given the men during the time of their work, in addition to a good salary. In this way an opportunity is offered to learn something about lumbering...