Word: hands
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...accompany the team from the club to the Square, where a special car will be waiting to take it to the station. This will be the last opportunity for the class as a whole to lend its support to the team and every Freshman is urged to be on hand at the Varsity Club promptly at 1 o'clock...
...fall work of the baseball squad ended last Thursday, after a period of about five weeks, during which twenty-six games were played. A good opportunity was thus offered for examinations of the material at hand. Considering the limitations for development imposed on an undergraduate, playing perhaps only eighty games during his college career, the large number of vacant positions to be filled, and the inadequacy of cage work, the motives for the fall practice are clear. The results have been in some degree satisfactory...
...life, not to abate their zeal in doing their prescribed college work, now that they have safely passed the first test. The amount of work put off from day to day accumulates surprisingly fast. The mid-year examinations which now seem so far away are in fact near at hand and safety lies alone in faithful daily performance of the prescribed tasks...
...country along the lines of the system now in force in Switzerland. There, every citizen is given two years of military service with the colors, and after that period of instruction is dismissed. By this means a reserve of 250,000 to 300,000 men is kept constantly on hand and can be mobilized in about 40 hours...
...which has taken place in the operation of the new plan during the past year in the percentage of men admitted over the percentage of men rejected. In 1911, 59.4 per cent of the total number of applicants were admitted, while 40.2 per cent were rejected. On the other hand, in 1912, out of a total of 213 applicants 154, or 72.3 per cent, secured entrance, while 59, or 27.6 per cent, failed. This considerable growth since last year in the percentage of men admitted over the total number who applied under the new requirements, should not be taken...