Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...possible--and there seems little to prevent this being accomplished. If the squads are interested enough to organize themselves and practice without any definite hope of an outside match, it seems only fair to assume that those in a position to do so will make every effort to permit a short schedule, or possibly merely a game with Yale--if, of course, Yale is willing and able to afford the necessary opposition. In any event, judging by the present outlook, the sport will merit the support of the University...
...Order 49, which authorized the establishment of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, but the War Department will make changes in the details of its operation. Not only will instruction in infantry be offered, but also colleges will be encouraged to develop artillery, engineer, signal corps and other units. An effort is being made, supported by President Lowell, to concentrate the drill and field work in summer camps of approximately six weeks' duration, and to devote that part of the work which would come during term time to lectures and class room work. The establishment of a field artillery unit here...
...will return late to College, the University Faculty will probably make a date of entrance later than the regular registration day, January 2. Men who cannot return before January 2, will thus be able to pursue their curriculum without inconvenience or delay. Without relaxing the usual scholastic standards, every effort will be made to lessen the difficulty such men will encounter on returning to College after an interruption of in some cases, three of four years...
...final adjournment of University football until after a touchdown has been scored across the Hun goal line has come to pass, but not without bringing pangs of regret to the hearts of its numberless adherents. The effort to keep the game alive during the war was manifest last season by the trial of the "informal system." Again this year an endeavor has been made to arrange games between representative teams of the large colleges...
...handing over personal funds to the Government, thus providing actual money which can be used for military purposes. Each bond is thus transformed into a concrete, positive unit of labor which is expended in beating the enemy. The more bonds bought, the larger the volume of fresh effort contributed...