Word: done
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...science instructors will take place this evening at 8.30 o'clock, when there will be a gathering to discuss the problems of military training in the various colleges. In spite of its unofficial nature, the conference will doubtless do much to standardize and strengthen the military work now being done in the colleges and thus lead to greater effectiveness in the preparation of men for national service. Delegates have been sent by the College of the City of New York, Connecticut Agricultural, Johns Hopkins, Rhode Island State, Rutgers, the University of Maine and Wesleyan. Others have been invited...
...have taken, that academic work is one thing and military service quite another, and that the same recognition is not appropriate to both. Far less formal than any of the usual tokens by which the colleges have expressed, or proposed to express, their appreciation of what their sons have done in the war is a plan of recognition pursued by the University of Minnesota...
...former years the number of delegates from the University has totaled nearly 200, but in view of present wartime conditions, and the unusually small number of undergraduates left in college, it was felt that no elaborate advertising of the meetings should be done this year. A large number of foreign students, have already been enrolled, however, and as many others as can go are urged to sign up at once...
...though the camp does not lead directly to a commission, it will be of the utmost value in the long run. This advantage of being regularly enrolled in the Government service is of great importance. A man who makes good at Plattsburg this summer will have done the best thing towards getting himself favorably considered when the time comes to enter an O. T. C. and will show directly to the real authorities that he is capable of the responsibilities and duties of an officer...
...occasional lapses into the immature and inept, the story as a whole is vividly and consistently imagined, vigorously told, and shows in several instances an acute understanding of human motive. Mr. Henderson's study, on the other hand, though simpler in theme, is much more perfectly and richly done. It is, indeed, a remarkably perceptive piece of work, one which many a well-known professional need not blush to have written. In delicacy of feeling and description it approaches the poetic. There is no waste in it: Mr. Henderson treasures his sentences. The psychology is sure and senitive...