Word: getting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...subject for many dissertations, more or less profound, from that early day when the delectable Eve bit into the delectable apple, and found it good. It is a rule established in civilized countries that horses eat oats, men eat bread, and the barnyard fowl eat anything they can get. However, this rule does not hold in the less highly cultured parts of Africa, where, it is rumored, polite society is fond of serpent and other things, nicely browned...
Fordham University will make an attempt to restore athletics with the opening of the fall term. It was decided at the last meeting of the athletic committee to play through the football schedule that has been prepared if it was at all possible to get together a team from among the younger men of non-military age when they return in September. The Bronx collegians will be much weaker than a year ago, but it has been agreed that the best way to keep the underclassmen in good physical shape for their future entry into military service...
...slogan of the pennant boys has now no more meaning. "Get the winning colors, mister!" They are all winning colors...
...Government will pay all the expenses of the members of the corps and the men will get regular pay as members of a branch of the United States Army. Non-commissioned officers will be selected from the members of the two units and the men will leave immediately for Europe as soon as their two weeks of training at Allentown are completed...
Beginning today the Senior Spread Committee will hold office hours in Thayer 8, every afternoon from 12 to 2 o'clock. Members of the R. O. T. C. who are to go to Wakefield may get only their invitations and tickets at these hours as the dance orders will not be ready until the first of next week...