Word: doubtful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Senior Spread applications and box lists must also be handed in this week. No boxes will be assigned until tickets have been applied for. Seniors have been extremely slow in handing in their applications and box lists, possibly because they doubt the success of the spread. In the past the spread has been very popular and has been well attended. This year the committee is doing everything in its power to make the spread a success and it expects every member of the Class of 1917 to co-operate, especially since those members of the class who are at Plattsburg...
There have been coming reports, no doubt largely exaggerated for dramatic effect, of Americans leaving this country for Mexico, for Canada or Cuba, to avoid the military duty which rests on each citizen as the price of his citizenship. One might be easily tempted, with shallow wisdom, to demand that laws be enacted to prevent these men from seeking in flight the presumably safe but blastingly dishonorable course of the coward...
...then the throng having collected, representative of the South's chivalry and the South's courage, the mob thrust their victim into a small steel cage from which there was no escape. They bound him by chains at the hands and feet. Lest he, no doubt, should, although a member of the despised race and one against thousands, put to rout these courageous Southern gentlemen. When they had bound him, the chains being hard and the steel bars strong, they tortured him; the mob, with the fiendish tortures which from time immemorial have been the pastime of savages. And when...
...might be said that does Mr. Roosevelt desire to serve, he may offer his sword to our ally, France. She would no doubt give him a position commensurate with her opinion of his abilities. That might be as captain of a company, or as a successor to Petain. We cannot...
...feel that 13 or 14 of the 16 possible weeks should be spent on farms. Just when the men can get their furloughs is still in doubt. Most of them will want to be free in September, but that is the most important month of the fruit season and many of them will be needed then. At any rate it will be impossible for more than a fixed percentage of the men enrolled to be absent at a given time. Men leaving for the officers' training camps which will open in August will, of course, be excused when the time...