Word: goings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Fasten the meat scraps and suet securely to the trees and see how eagerly the chickadees and wood-peckers go to it. Tread the snow down hard and scatter the hayseed and crumbs there, or put the food on a board or box and watch the juncoes and tree sparrows fill up. Put out chaff and grain for the quail and meadowlarks in the pasture. They work for us all summer long, eating insects...
...sure that all their personal letters concerning military matters are submitted to the local censor. Since no suitable officer is available for the position of R. O. T. C. censor, Major Flynn has consented to act in this capacity. For further details in regard to this matter, cadets should go to R. O. T. C. Headquarters in the basement of University Hall...
...future he has found certain issues of more vital concern than the mastery of the latest step in the fox-trot. It is easy to trace the sequence of cause and effect which has been at work here: The boys in our colleges have seen hundreds of their fellows go forth to an active share in the war. Most of them know that their own time for service will not long be deferred. For all of them there is the determining stimulus of their country's part in the war and of its future place among nations. How could they...
...early to say what length of life this new periodical will enjoy at North Carolina or how far other undergraduate bodies will go in emulating its striking example. It is not too much to say, however, that where such manifestations as these are discovered in the spontaneous life of an institution, there you may know one more American college is of a truth "finding the range," and preparing to forge its way forward into a new epoch of public usefulness. Boston Transcript...
Harvard University is justly proud of the part which its graduates and undergraduates have done in war work. It is only natural that active military service should receive the greatest measure of praise, for with it go all dangers and hardships. Yet there are many other fields in which men may serve with great benefit to their nation. A group of University undergraduates has just finished a task, the completion of which deserves most honorable mention. These men gave up their Christmas vacation to go into the woods nearby and gather fuel to relieve the shortage so keenly felt...