Word: failings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...international Socialistic conference to be held at Stockholm shortly might well awaken from its very name high hopes in the breast of a philosopher. The labor of nations in a world parliament! The union of toilers before which all sectional boundaries fail...
...members of the Training Corps who are accepted for Plattsburg and other camps, or who enter other Government service, and whose discharges are authorized, will turn in all articles of uniform clothing and all equipment issued to them. Should they fail to do this, a report of the circumstances will be made to the commandant of the training camp, etc., with the notation covering the man's unfitness to be entrusted with Government property. C. CORDIER, Captain, U. S. Army, Commandant...
...their commander shows these emotions. You must not spoil good material for officers by enlisting aimlessly now, or until special circumstances arise to warrant such action. For the present, Yale men should content themselves with making themselves fit to answer the call when it comes. The draft plan may fail, for it is impossible to tell how serious the resistance in certain districts will become. Then the only thing to do will be to call for volunteers, and then, perhaps, it will be the duty of all Yale...
...stiffening in the college morale. President Lowell's policy is on trial. The reputation of the R. O. T. C. is in the balance. Only a few days remain before we shall ourselves write the decision in our blue-books. Confronted by the first crucial test, we must not fail...
...School for Naval Air Service at Squantum, 30 are members of the University, who, if they pass the necessary physical examination, will enter in May. The selections were made by lot after a certain amount of preliminary selections were made, only 80 men being needed. Should any of them fail to pass the required physical tests their places will be filled by the next in order on the drawing list. Of those rejected one-half was on account of defective eyesight or lack of mathematical training...