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...reported from many sources that agricultural work, which exempts from the draft, has come highly into the favor of a large number of sons of the big cities. They have heard, with a voice that may not be denied, the call for going to the land. They have purchased overalls of the latest 1917 model from the clothiers, and now besiege dairy, truck and ranch farmers with requests for any work of an arduous kind which will increase their country's food production, all the way from milking cows to raking the leaves off the front lawn...
Every college graduating class for the last century or so has heard the appeal to take a live interest in public affairs and to get into the midst of political activities. How well the appeal is being answered appears in a recent study of the personnel of Congress, which shows 380 members of the present House and Senate, or nearly three-fourths of the members, who had a collegiate education. No fewer than 173 colleges and universities are represented. The University of Michigan, with 27 representatives, is far in the lead, holding the pennant that it wrested from Yale...
Machine Gun Company: Cadet 1st Lieut., R. D. Peet uC; Cadet 2d Lieut., A. D. McLean '18; Cadet Sgts., M. Heard '20, W. W. Sanders '17, C. Winsor '17, J. W. Austin '18; Cadet Corps., P. D. Jones '18, W. P. Belknap '20, H. D. Jordan '18, R. E. Sherwood '18, E. R. Weinberg '18, W. A. Dole '19, K. E. Luttrop...
...plunging of this country into the world-war has given the thinking citizens of the United States a more serious attitude towards the difficult problems ahead of them. Although many unfortunately still regard the struggle in Europe merely as interested spectators attending a great pageant, Harvard undergraduates have continually heard the call to arms grow more and more distinct. Thus their change of attitude has not been sudden. The future promises grave problems and many hardships for the young men of the country. There is more harm than good in anticipating unseen dangers, but it is all-important to fortify...
...since the memorable meeting in Sanders Theatre at the end of the enrolment campaign for the R. O. T. C. have we heard from President Lowell in regard to the University's official course. Now that this country is actually at war undergraduates are considering the question of their own futures more seriously than ever before in their lives. For this reason the sound advice and new light that President Lowell will surely give is to be eagerly anticipated. From the very day that complications between Germany and the United States arose, President Lowell has worked ceaselessly to give Harvard...