Word: getting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Work for the 1921 Red Book will get under way this evening at 7.30 o'clock when the candidates for the business, art and editorial departments of the publication will meet in the Standish Hall Common Room. Plans will be outlined and the chairmen of the various departments will announce the future meeting places of the men under their direct supervision. This is the only Freshman literary competition and will afford excellent experience for those who intend to try out for College publications next year. It will last from six to eight weeks. Inasmuch as 130 men reported last year...
...Freshman track squad will begin active preparations today to get in the best possible condition for the meet with Worcester Academy on Soldiers Field on Saturday. The events of the day will include the 40-yard dash, the 45-yard hurdles, the 300 and 600-yard races, and the half-mile and mile runs...
...here merely to mark time before being sent to a training camp. To say that we are now preparing for after the war has become a trite though necessary truism; but it is also of distinct disadvantage for a man in his career as an officer to get into bad habits of loafing. Finally, we often overlook the value of a general college education in war itself. A single striking example will bring this clearly before our minds...
...doing formation flying, and in a few days we are going to the front. Wish us luck. We are still only half-trained, for we have had no machine gun work, but I believe we are to be given some shooting at another school where we get the latest type of machines, each fellow...
...excuses for this state of affairs are easy to find. The foremost thought of every red-blooded man is to get into service and he accepts too readily the theory that as a result scholastic attainment is of small importance. Serious thought will refute such an idea. If a man does get into the army or navy the success with which he has pursue his studies here will be of splendid service to him in those fields. If he does not get into uniform, he must take his place as a leader in the era of reconstruction to follow. There...