Word: fires
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...undergraduate is under fire in the current number of The New Republic. He is charged with not taking his curricular duties as seriously as his voluntary outside "activities"; with lacking serious intellectual interests, and with introducing into all of his life the sporting spirit which reigns in athletics. In particular the American undergraduate is compared disadvantageously to his European cousins...
...brink of war, although the interests at stake between the contending powers in no way affected this country. They have been like the man who thinks he is so careful about his own domestic affairs that it is unnecessary to insure his buildings, until his neighbor's house catches fire. To the great mass of our people the advocates for a league to enforce peace can well say that the proposal they urge is one that should be carefully considered by every...
...experienced men. The afternoons are given over to various forms of out-door recreation, including a tennis tournament, baseball league games, a track meet, and good swimming in the Connecticut. In the evenings there are out-door addresses on a neighboring hill-side and delegation meetings around a camp fire...
...more clubs will forget or not understand some provisions of the agreement and do something which will seem to the members of some other club or clubs to violate its terms. They in turn may be tempted to retaliate in kind, and then the fat will be in the fire. If the members of the clubs will keep in mind the essence of the agreement, which is that no attempts to influence a man as to his club affiliations are to be made until the opening of College in his Sophomore year, and will take up with their graduate representatives...
...rally will open with a parade and review of all the scouts, of whom there are 2500 in the greater Boston district. Following the parade the events proper will be held, among which will be contests in wall-scaling, fire building, signalling, bridge building, and knot-tieing. There will also be demonstrations of first-aid work, wireless signalling, setting up of temporary encampments and numerous forms of drills. Only the best men from each district will participate in these competitions...