Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that country doubtless is, there is no doubt a considerable time must elapse before the desired output is obtained." But so far is he from intending disparagement of the United States in comparison with the United Kingdom that he says in the latter there has been a serious drop in the rate of ship production, that owing to labor unrest and strike difficulties the men in the yards are not working as if the life of the country depended on their exertions, but that even at this late date they do not seem fully to realize the seriousness...
Today is the last day in the second half-year upon which undergraduates, unclassified students and out-of-course students in the University may drop, without liability for additional charge, courses of study that begin in the second half-year...
...headquarters at 8 Rue de Richelieu, Paris, was opened in October, and has already a college membership list of 115. The Royal Palace Hotel, the Paris home of the Union, is crowded every night with men in uniform. Mr. Stokes writes: "It is delightful to have men drop in constantly who seem to appreciate the privileges of the place when they come here from their camps or the front, and I hear on all sides deep appreciation of the Union and what it is doing for college...
...faculty has ruled that all members of the R. O. T. C. shall take on three additional hours each week of classroom work in military subjects. In order to meet this requirement, students will be allowed to drop three hours a week of their regular academic work. Those whose rating is below 250, on a scale of 400, will be required to cancel the proportionate amount of academic work...
...academic course we feel that such laziness is his own business, but when someone does his best to skin drills and thus shirks his military duty, he becomes a liability to the nation. This Corps is a preparatory school for national service and everything we learn here is a drop in the bucket we must fill before we can become officers. There have been times when the thermometer was around zero and bed seemed more attractive than Soldiers Field; we have of weakness, but the systematic skipping is the symptom of a D or an F man. A habit...