Word: come
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...while prospective members of the Mandolin and Banjo Clubs will meet in Randolph 3, prepared to play a selection from memory, if possible. "Funny men" should report for the Glee Club at the same time as the other candidates. Those who have a lecture in Military Science tonight should come out tomorrow evening, and vice versa. Freshmen are especially needed for the Musical Clubs This year, in order to establish a foundation for future years...
...only natural that this custom has not changed. We are a sport-loving people and need entertainment. We have already had a year of war with, unfortunately, visions of more to come. Yet we can only have one World Series each year. It is not unnatural, then, that the injury to McCarthy's arm has caused more sorrow in New York than the partial success of the Germans on the Baltic front, whereas Felsch's home-run has cheered Chicago more than any English victory in Flanders. To a foreigner this may seem to be a dreadful and unpatriotic state...
...time has come when the English and French have had to resort to reprisals for the air raids over undefended towns. Not until every other means of stopping them had been exhausted were the Allies justified in stooping to this policy, but the blood of their murdered non-combatants calls for action, not the action of mere vengeance, as would men of other races and other character, but action for protection. If the Germans have been carrying on their raids with the settled aim of keeping aeroplanes at home for purposes of defense, then reprisals will equalize the military advantage...
With the war has come a far-reaching change in these conditions. For some years there has been a wish for less centralization in college athletics; now this wish has been partially fulfilled and everyone has an equal chance. The fields the track, and the river are here as before; the coaches and the equipment are here, but now they are here to help everyone, the athlete and him who aspires as well. To be a successful soldier one must have strength and endurance, but no more than the ordinary man can obtain if he takes part in some form...
...desired change has come. If the average man takes advantage of it and proves its value to him, it may be permanent...