Word: generals
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Recently the Executive Committee of the Student Council at their regular meeting discussed for the first time the question of giving a Junior dance. What may be the general sentiment of the Junior class I am not in a position to say. From what I am able to learn from some members of the class, I am inclined to think that when the question comes up for decision it will be apt to be favorable. From the point of view of an officer of the college, I see no objection to the dance, provided it is carried out in consonance...
...weaknesses of the United States military policy since the time of the Mexican war, and described the unfortunate results which have been caused by it. Professor Johnston attacked first the theory of recruiting and hastily equipping a mob of recruits with no previous military experience. Statements made by General Meade, Kirby Smith and McClellan at the close of the Mexican campaign agreed in the assertation that the volunteers were not only inefficient and unmanageable, but that they murdered and pillaged wherever they went...
...production. The drama, in four acts, was written by Miss Eleanor Hinkley, a member of the Workshop, who, besides being the author of "The Reunion," a one-act play presented by the University Dramatic Club last year, has taken part in many Workshop pieces. The production is under the general supervision of Professor G. P. Baker '87, Director of the Workshop...
...Christmas Day and on Sundays December 23 and 30, the entire Library will be closed. On New Year's Day the general reading room and the Farnsworth Room will be open, but the delivery desk will be closed as on other holidays...
This former attitude, however, was not at all surprising, as it was shared by other colleges. A rifle team's value is one of the many details which the war has brought to the fore. It is now easy to conceive what the worth of a general taking up of the sport throughout the country would be. It would mean scores of expert shots just so much further along in their training for combat. Though rifle teams and gun clubs use small calibre weapons, it is with these that the soldier is given his first and fundamental training, "gallery practice...