Word: callings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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College men and colleges themselves are anticipating any call that the nation may make upon them, and the institutions of the East, West, North and South are preparing themselves. If the Government wants sites for training camps, campuses are at its disposal. A dozen or more technical schools have offered the unrestricted use of their scientific laboratories for experiments; farming experts stand prepared to teach the people to live more cheaply and to conserve the nation's resources; forty state colleges which have for years had military training as a dominant feature of their curricula, will furnish officers to instruct...
Harvard men may have no fear that the authorities will make all possible provisions for the most efficient direction of military work. When the time for quick action comes Harvard will be ready and the undergraduates duty will be an immediate and unflinching response to the call...
...response to the call for coxswains for the University and Freshman boats was discouraging, as only five men reported. Since 18 shells will be kept throughout the season there are positions for at least 13 other candidates. Although men with experience will be at an advantage, such previous work is by no means essential. New candidates should report at the Newell Boat House this afternoon at 4 o'clock...
...while. I have had themes late by reason of a janitor's carelessness in mislaying them when he dusted; because a sister borrowed them to show to a friend; because the hour the student expected to spend in preparation had been used up in getting a long-distance call over the telephone. What conviction has the ordinary excuse now for me? And what strange glimpses I have had of lives! The boy who lay for eighteen hours under the dead body of his mother in Kishineff, until the mob drew off; the girl who wrote...
...managers during the first weeks usually outnumber the players. Yet track is a major sport. Such a showing is simply ridiculous, and should shame the undergraduates in College. The track competition does. Track as a sport is popular and important both in the college world and outside. Today's call is the first for undergraduate support. Certainly the shame of last year ought to be wiped out by a greatly increased number of candidates reporting...