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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...honor is due those men who are in the active service of their country. A word of consolation may be given, in addition to undergraduates, who, unable to serve their country for at least the present, must be satisfied with the daily routine of college work. It is difficult to give up one's time and perhaps life to the hardships of active warfare. It is equally difficult, however, to attend lectures on Indic Philology or to discuss the embryology of vertebrates with the Germans driving on Amiens. The man in college today is serving a hard apprenticeship...
...opportunity for morning setting-up drill next week under the direction of Captain Kendall is very fortunate for members of the R. O. T. C. and particularly for those taking the special examinations. The irregular hours of these tests and the added work they will require will make it difficult to find time for one's usual amount of exercise. Half an hour of setting-up drill under the supervision of an expert officer will more than make up for this lack...
...interesting. The French press has had no small part to play in this great conflict. Upon it has the government depended to a large extent for informing the French people what was going on, and yet keeping up their spirit and resolution. As may be expected, this was a difficult task, for with German hordes pouring in upon them, with a horrible and thorough war being fought on their territory, the French people could not be salved into determination by honeyed words alone. It required straight from the shoulder talk, with logic always in evidence. This French papers have supplied...
...very difficult position which Holland has maintained since the outbreak of the war has now become practically untenable, as the result of the German ultimatum just presented at the Hague. The demand made upon the Dutch people offers but another indictment of the imperial treatment of small nations, and once more strengthens our belief in the complete lack of integrity which has characterized all actions of that government...
...dormitories to Appleton Chapel has kept the succeeding Freshman classes from forming the chapel-going habit. An entire generation of college classes has now lived in the dormitories and this habit has consequently been lost. If not formed during a man's first year in college it is difficult to form...