Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...order from the War Department printed elsewhere in today's CRIMSON may come as a disappointment not only to the former "Quota A," but also to many others interested in the University Corps. Although it seemed for a time as though Army officials had seen fit to recognize the comprehensive two years' work of the Harvard Corps as equivalent to the four years' course prescribed for R. O. T. C. units in General Order 49, 1916, it is now apparent that this was not their intention. We can not criticize the War Department for their action, for the necessity...
...doing their utmost toward winning the war. First the word slacker meant the man who dodged the enlistment office and the draft; then it was applied to those who secured soft berths in the service, such as patrol-boat jobs or office work, when they were well fitted for active service in the line; and now those who have had college training and are skilled enough to be officers, but who have seen fit to shirk the heavy responsibilities of the officers' post in order to join up as a non-com, are likely to be classed with the others...
...cause for which they are fighting. "If I had my way, every young man from 19 to 21 years of age would be put into a training camp forthwith and required to go into the army when he was 21 and permitted to do so if he proved fit for such service before he was 21. Speaking generally for all our colleges and universities, I think that every institution of learning should, so far as possible, guarantee every boy who goes to the war against any scholastic detriment or penalty for having gone...
...Mine was the sixth. On January 22 I submitted to the CRIMSON a reasonable letter asking a public explanation of the wretched condition of the Advocate; and on January 25 I presented a note asking why the letter had not been published. I received no answer. The CRIMSON saw fit to suppress the letter and ignore the note...
...CRIMSON has no record of having received the letter of Mr. Hotson, nor the note asking that his letter be published. If they were delivered at the CRIMSON office they were not seen by any officer of the Board. This may be believed or not, as anyone sees fit, but it is a statement of fact...