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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...worthy Canadian has pointed out, the term "slacker" has taken on a new meaning. The slacker among us now is the man who, in the slightest way, withholds any bit of energy or ability which might be of service to his government. In that sense most of us are found wanting. We neglect a hundred opportunities for service. The Red Cross, institutions of all kinds engaged in social betterment, Liberty Loan campaigns, all point to a vast need of men. Not one half of us know what war is. It does not permit us to pass our days in usual...
...total surprise I found myself a contributor to Saturday's CRIMSON. After some four perusals of the communication labelled "Conditions Suggested," I was able to gather that the alter ego who had perpetrated this forgery had concealed within the article sentiments precisely opposite...
...these days of censorship, rumor and uncertainty the American journal has found a ripe field for the interpretation of news according to its own desires. Given any bit of information from abroad, a casual glance at the morning papers will discover no end of variation in its presentation and emphasis. Moreover, in the last year there has been combined with this a spirit of artificial patriotism which attempts to make all news good news. In huge headlines we see that the French have advanced, while below, in some obscure corner, it is asserted that the Germans have made no appreciable...
...shells which were secured by the University last spring, but, which on account of the abandonment of crew work were never put in the water are now being fitted up and rigged. One is a Ward sectional boat, which may not be used this season unless it is found, contrary to present plans, that the Yale shells cannot be satisfactory re-rigged to suit the University style of rowing. This would necessitate transporting a boat to New Haven, and, accordingly, the use of the Ward boat. Of the other two new shells one is also a regulation Ward while...
...statement regarding the appearance of the Corps in the inspection on Tuesday afternoon, Captain McDonell mentioned but one fault to be found with the men of the University R. O. T. C., the fact that many of the cadets had not provided themselves with regulation army shoes, but wore variegated types of footgear to formations. "The tendency on the part of your men to wear civilian shoes to formations should be stopped for two reason," said the inspector. "In the first place it looks bad, and is absolutely contrary to army regulations; and secondly, it must be pointed out that...