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...poor. The man who is drafted for labor has very little ground for objection, compared to the person chosen for trench service and a labor draft is the one and only way to put the workmen, manual and intellectual, in the places where they would do the most good. In the higher intellectual classes a type of conscription is already in force, only this selection is done under the guise of an invitation to do Government work elsewhere. Schwab, Ryan and even Hughes are examples of such cases...
...succeeding generation. Of late, the Advocate has been passing through a period of eclipse,--if not total, at any rate partial. Before that, it was in the hands of poets and became a sort of serial anthology. With much work that was of course mediocre, it also printed a good deal of very exceptional verse by such poets as S. Foster Damon, Robert Hillyer, William Norris, and B. Preston Clark. This was perhaps one of the Advocate's golden ages. But in general, undergraduate writers of verse are better than undergraduate writers of prose, and perhaps always will...
...tennis team will meet Newton on Divinity Field at 2.30 o'clock today. Although the Newton team made a good showing in the interscholastic tournament last week, the Freshmen are favorites in the match. The following men will play in the order named: singles, L. A. de Turenne (capt.), E. D. Cumming, R. R. Weaver, W. T. Richards; doubles, L. A. de Turenne and E. B. Cumming, R. N. Knox and H. B. V. Snelling...
...subject is concerned. I am very grateful to him for having backed up with his high authority the criticism I expressed so often. Our men must acquire more precision and more snap in all the close order exercises, in marching, and in all these details which give troops a good military appearance, and impress in a favorable way the civilian spectators...
Gore.--1, Good Bye, My Lover. 2, Football Marches. 3, I Don't Want to Get Well...