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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...hard customs for many men to become inured to is that of rendering the salute to cadet superior officers. It is not because of unwillingness, but of forgetfulness. To many men it borders on affectation to address those who are their friends or their associates with a formal hand salute...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PAY UNTO CAESAR | 5/21/1917 | See Source »

Practical instruction in intrenching, mine warfare, hand grenades, barbed-wire entanglements, and other work especially adapted to warfare on the Western

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: R. O. T. C. WILL HIKE JULY 16 TO AUGUST 15 | 5/19/1917 | See Source »

When last we had intimate and martial dealings with England, George III, King of the House of Hanover, held in his fat and unregal hand the sceptre of that nation. With what ardor our free born Americans despised him, the stupid German lordling! How the hearts of our Revolutionary heroes seethed with contempt of his bigotry and his blindness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TWO GEORGES. | 5/18/1917 | See Source »

...other hand the "Star Spangled Banner," while revered by all, like the Sultan of Turkey, is, like the Sultan of Turkey, known to few. When the band or the orchestra strikes up the first bars, we stand, remove our hats, and begin valiantly with the heroic query of "Oh say, can you see?" Finding that no one can see we relapse into a humming monotone, cheerful, although unintelligible. It is only at "the rockets' red glare, the bombs' bursting in air," that our patriotic choruses come out with full assurance again. That bit or warlike description has fixed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN INTERNATIONAL MEDLEY. | 5/17/1917 | See Source »

...total we may say that alcohol does small real harm to college men. It wastes time, both in the imbibing and the recounting. It wastes money, but a college man would do that anyway. On the other hand, it puts the climax to a full evening, and affords the means of a certain amount of boon cordiality. The harm which the drinking of the college man does is not personal, but by example. There is a proportion of our citizens by no means small who, while vociferously disparaging the college man, yet copy after a fashion his method of dressing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WAR PROHIBITION | 5/14/1917 | See Source »

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