Word: certaines
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...most part potential commanders. Since West Point is out of the question for the great majority, and since the element of chance rising from the ranks is considerable in the case of an untrained soldier, university R. O. T. C.'s are the most accessible, and yet quite certain means of reaching high position. They form the most convenient stepping stone for many future officers...
...many an American college the undergraduate seems to have experienced a change of heart upon several matters. He has even discovered, much more generally than he had four years ago, a feeling of interest in questions of broad public moment. In subjects touching his personal future he has found certain issues of more vital concern than the mastery of the latest step in the fox-trot. It is easy to trace the sequence of cause and effect which has been at work here: The boys in our colleges have seen hundreds of their fellows go forth to an active share...
...efforts of certain members of the fencing squad, a bayonet team will be formed at the University and will have outside matches with other universities and colleges. Coach Leslabay of the fencing team, who was a captain in the R. O. T. C. last summer and had entire charge of its bayonet practice, will coach the new team...
...thing is certain: If when the world is at peace again, and intercollegiate contests are resumed, we fail to reduce the expense of coaching and training, to inculcate notions less luxurious, and to foster a better understanding of the relation between athletics and other interests of life, we shall lose one of the opportunities so dearly bought by this...
...climate," for better or for worse, in New England. The weather in Boston in essentially what it was at the days of the first settlement; and if there had been no record as low as 14 degrees below zero between the years 1873 and 1917, we may be entirely certain that the exact instruments which we now have would have recorded a temperature as low as that on several occasions since 1630, if they had been in existence. Boston Transcript...