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Spencer Miller, of Columbia, has been appointed by C. T. Clayton, special representative of the Department of Labor, to canvass the technical schools for apprentices. Professor Luke, of the engineering school of Columbia, regards the work as a valuable experience for civil, mining, and mechanical engineers...
Athletics at Yale may not be resumed next fall or before the close of the war. This conclusion is the result of a canvass of members of the Yale Athletic Council whose opinion is that too many athletes have left college or plan to do so before fall. A success of athletics under the conditions imposed by the war is virtually impossible, it is said...
...meeting of the undergraduate Liberty Bond Committee will be held tonight with the purpose of planning a strenuous campaign to stimulate the interest of members of the University in the purchase of the bonds. Subcommittees will be appointed to canvass the various dormitories and solicit subscriptions for the bonds of smaller denominations, and every effort will be made to advertise the sale of the bonds to students. The campaign will be inaugurated in the near future...
...urgent demands for service connected with the war, and the multiplicity of notices and appeals having to do with that service, it has been thought best to defer for the present any active solicitation in the interest of other forms of civic and social work. In the meantime the canvass of social and charitable organizations will be completed. All inquiries regarding existing openings for voluntary work should be addressed to the Secretary of the Committee on Civic and Social Work, Harvard Club, New York City...
Professor Fisher will give his whole time to the work and with offices in the Petersham town hall as a base, he will carry out by automobiles a canvass of all the farmers in the vicinity of the town and will organize a scheme which will greatly increase the acreage under cultivation throughout the whole neighborhood. As a result the normal crop production will be at least doubled and it is hoped trebled. Seed, fertilizer and labor will, as far as possible, be furnished to all those who are unable to themselves furnish them. The money for carrying out these...