Word: certain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Although no definite quota has been set for the University, as far as members of the College are concerned, it is not certain that every man who applies for admittance to the training camps, and who fulfills the qualifications set down by the War Department, will be sent to the schools. The names of all applicants will be passed upon by the Tactical Staff and other academic authorities, and only if the man in question has done work up to the desired standard during his course will he be recommended...
Realizing the chance to create more efficient methods of hiring and "firing" labor, the Government is introducing a new type of experts, to be known as employment managers. In spite of a certain overemphasis that has tended to make us regard somewhat cynically efficiency experts in general, the need for them in all matters pertaining to labor is becoming increasingly apparent. While the selling of material commodities has become organized to the highest point, the selling of labor has been done for the most part in a completely haphazard manner. Trade unions have had some effect; private and semi-public...
...when you lend your money to the Government instead of spending it, you will at once lessen the drain to a certain extent on our country's resources, its material, its labor, and its transportation facilities, and in addition you supply your Government with money to be used in winning...
...Loan Campaign. The aforesaid total that was handed in yesterday may, in some measure, be pardoned for its lack of volume by the fact that the sum does not include the collections of the Freshman canvassers, who are due to make their first report today. Nevertheless, it is certain that the University, and the members of the College especially, must answer the call of the country for funds with far greater enthusiasm and zeal in the future if they are to fulfill the quota assigned them,--a quota which is over $5,000 less than the sum collected...
What will be done with the ground on which Dane Hall has stood has still not been decided by the Corporation, although it is certain that no new building will be built before next fall. Nothing definite concerning the headquarters of the Bursar next year has been determined. Until the end of this college year he will remain in the Varsity Club, where the offices of the Economies Department, formerly in Dane Hall, are also located. Captain Parker, commandant of the Ensign School of the First Naval District, who was forced to move on account of the fire, will continue...