Word: getting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Voting will continue throughout today at the various dining halls in the University. In order to get as complete a vote as possible the Student Council has also sent out return postal cards. The result of this vote will be combined with the ballot system. The votes of those men who, have used both methods, however, will only be counted once, while any undergraduates who have cast no vote whatsoever are urged to do so today. The direct ballot, however, is preferred to the postal cards, but to insure obtaining everybody's vote both systems should be employed...
...knowledge of special subjects, such as navigation, signaling, radio work, steam or electrical engineering, etc., may have an opportunity to specialize, the object being to give everybody a general idea of what Navy routine and the problems of naval defence means. And it is our desire to get as representative a body of men as possible, who, after the cruise, it is believed will become enthusiastic advocates of preparedness and who will spread amongst the people of the country as a whole, who are practically entirely ignorant concerning military and naval matters, real information, about the Navy and what...
Rosenblat was standing on the ledge of one of the windows on the second story. Attempting to get back into the building, he pulled the window, which opens outward, toward him, and in so doing lost his equilibrium and fell. He landed on his head and shoulders on the pavement...
Exeter will send the University, its 1916 baseball captain and its hockey captain, while to Yale will go the leaders of its 1915 baseball team, its football and its track team. Yale will only get Groton's crew captain, however, for the football and baseball captains will come here. Among the preparatory schools sending all their graduating athletic leaders here are Country Day, Middlesex, Milton, Noble and Greenough, Roxbury Latin, St. Mark's, St. Paul's, and Volkmann. Andover, Lawrenceville, and Mercersburg alone failed to turn in statistics...
...French in Morocco during the present century has made due allowance for the rights of other European countries." Basing his argument on the paramount interests of France in the country, he showed how successive events have made necessary each step taken by the French, and how Germany, wishing to get control of mining concessions which her merchants had obtained from the Sultan for a nominal price, did everything she could to harass the French until she should be allowed a share in the administration of the land. France accorded Germany all the commercial and economic freedom which she accorded other...