Word: latters
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Professor Robert Matteson Johnston, chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs, will speak on "Forms of Military Service" in Emerson J this evening at 7.30 o'clock. Man power and practical efficiency will be discussed in the lecture, as well as forms of service. The latter is intended to show the many fields in which there are opportunities open. Professor Johnston will also discuss the compulsory and volunteer systems of raising an army. After the lecture he will answer questions...
...should not be surprised if it were found significant of the general literary situation. I understand that it has become increasingly difficult to get good stories for the magazines, one reason being the greater profit from writing scenarios for the "movies," another the deductive attraction of vers libre. The latter enables a writer to utilize at once, it primitive, semi-poetic, material--idea of image--that, in the past, has had-to be worked up slowly and elaborately into conventional fiction form. Much of the "free verse" seen in the magazines is of this type--some of it quite successful...
...cadets will be fitted out at the rate of three companies every other day, it will probably be the latter part of next week before the entire corps will have been equipped...
...such arrant and superficial satire as to lose its sting. We can even laugh about it--especially the poor ignorant Westerner's difficulties with the Boston transit system, and the supposedly cutting remarks on Cambridge weather. Who, indeed, will go so far as to take exception at the latter? And, by the way, the supposed "sop" he throws out to our outraged feelings in his last paragraph is wholly unnecessary. Not only that, but it mars the delightful anathema which Mr. Carpenter has hurled...
...colleges will be abandoned as soon as war is declared, informal and intramural competitions will be encouraged so long as such meets will not interfere with military preparation. This means that the University will not, in case of war, take part in the Pennsylvania Relay Carnival scheduled for the latter part of this month, and that there will be no dual meets with Cornell or Yale...