Word: hands
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...followed by the Seniors who will first march around the Yard led by class officers, cheering the buildings. After this the Ivy Oration will be delivered by S. N. Dunton '18 in Sanders Theatre and if necessary a second time in New Lecture Hall. The Senior Class will then hand down their class banner to 1921, with the usual ceremonies. The features which may have to be eliminated are the organized cheering and confetti fight...
...will return to college next year only about 200 have as yet signed up for the University Summer Camp. There is no doubt that the small size of this number is largely due to the same deadly habit of procrastination that impels an undergraduate invariably to hand in a thesis in the last half-hour of the allotted time; according to the recent order of Major Flynn such men, if they wait after next Friday, will merely find themselves debarred from positions as officers or non-coms, when the new companies are organized. Their cases merit no concern...
...first raised in the recruiting campaign for the 1916 Civilian Plattsburg Camps. It should today be the motto of every able-bodied undergraduate not entering the service at once; the idler is as bad as the draft dodger. Nor can it be a question of training on one hand against war work on the other. Do both--train for six weeks for your own future call, and then work for the nation's present needs until September 23. For no man in the United States should the summer of 1918 be called a vacation...
...indifference until the whole atmosphere was distinctly bad. At the psychological moment came Colonel Applin, and in his opportune arrival the Corps has certainly shown improvement in the respects he criticized. But the time has been short, and it will be hard to remember everything this afternoon. Every hand raised in ranks and every infraction of strict discipline will be an illuminating commentary on our former laxity and a lesson for next year. For our experience has shown us that it takes more than two weeks, however intense, to build up any real discipline...
Only those who have applied for admission to camp are eligible to receive the special instruction at the cantonment. The men included in that number who wish to be included in the Devens group must hand in applications at the Military Office before 1 o'clock this afternoon...