Word: learns
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...gradually coming to learn that war, although more frightful than ever, has not lost all its chivalry. During these many months of artillery and trenching, battle has appeared dreary work without a touch of romance; it has seemed a monotonnous series of incidents no one of which was interesting in itself. One branch of service, however, has lighted up the picture. It is a field where only heroes can serve with success and where heroes can show the stuff they are made of. This field is aviation...
...military value. Its largest room is no more suited to drill purposes than Sever 12. That Lord Howe wished to sail up the Bronx river to conquer New York State seems ridiculous to us, but it is no more so than the notion that a company can learn tactics in a chamber the size of an average lecture hall. To cross the Alps was a great feat in Hannibal's time; it was a simple move compared to giving about face in the Municipal Building. Something must be done for a joke is good only once, but this state...
...Recently the Executive Committee of the Student Council at their regular meeting discussed for the first time the question of giving a Junior dance. What may be the general sentiment of the Junior class I am not in a position to say. From what I am able to learn from some members of the class, I am inclined to think that when the question comes up for decision it will be apt to be favorable. From the point of view of an officer of the college, I see no objection to the dance, provided it is carried out in consonance...
...Forestry Association, will speak in Sever 5 to the students who are planning to take up wood-cutting during the Christmas vacation. This work will not only be of great value to the men in that they receive a good salary in addition to board and lodging, and will learn some of the fundamentals of the lumbering business, but it will also help in a certain measure to reduce the fuel shortage in Massachusetts. The place where the students will work will be announced this afternoon...
...Sever 5 at 5.30 o'clock on Monday afternoon to explain the conditions under which the wood-cutting will be done during the Christmas holidays. Board and lodging will be given the men during the time of their work in addition to a good salary. The students will learn some lumbering...