Word: credited
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...highest type, and in the future a citizen of invaluable worth. The Scouts have conclusively shown their intrinsic value by the ability and willingness with which they have served the country in its time of need. The energy which they displayed in canvassing for Liberty Loans brought well earned credit to themselves and benefit to the nation. And the numberless war gardens throughout the United States, which have been developed by Scout gardeners, have added an important increment to the diminished food supply...
Princeton, N. J., Jan. 3. -- Princeton University will open on January 6. Men who return to college from military service at that time will be given a certain amount of credit for their work in the service, and as far as possible, students absent during the fall will be credited with a full year's work...
...University is technically justified in giving the work of the Junior Company one-sixth of a course credit because it appeared in the catalogue as a half course for the year; but this seems quite unfair. Wholly aside from the fact that the hard work which the men have done deserves greater recognition, to give only one-sixth of a course credit is giving practically no credit at all. In order to complete the work necessary to make up a full course, a man would have to take five sixths of a course, -- an impossibility. He cannot take two thirds...
...halves. The only practical as well as the only fair thing to do is to let this work count as a third of a course. It is bad enough juggling with thirds and two thirds without introducing the doubly complicated element of sixths. Give the Junior Company some real credit for what they have done. To their disappointment at being too young to enter the regular service ought not to be added the disappointment of having unrecognized what sincere efforts they have been able to make...
Major Heermance is well satisfied. He said: "I am very well pleased with the spirit which both the officers and the men have shown during the past two weeks. The demobilization has progressed without any disorder or serious confusion, and the work has certainly been a credit to the unit, to the University, and to the men themselves...