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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...more fortunate situation. What nation can conceivably find it to its advantage to hack its way through the United States to reach its enemy? Certainly we have as little reason to fear the designs of any of our neighbors as they ours. If it is Canada that menaces us, let us at once abrogate the agreement of one hundred years' standing in accordance with which our northern frontier is entirely unfortified...
...Drury closes with the following admonition: "Let men under thirty, of good education, consider the call to be all things to all boys. Let the men in the cage downtown, who see life through a wire mesh, put the problem of bonds versus boys. There are many misfits and many sad dislocations. Let the man who has mistaken a chance vacancy for a vocation think twice before he spends his life persuading himself that the one is the other. There are men selling dry-goods who ought to be breaking bronchos; there are men in the mills who ought...
...purely personal work, for it embodies all the hazards of failure. Teaching is this pastoral personal opportunity. Do you know a man who is eating his heart out in an uncongenial trade into which custom has forced him? Might he not be teaching? The sooner the better, let the possible misfit and his friends investigate the work of the boarding schools...
...readers are let into the secrets of Phi Beta Kappa elections by C. H. Smith '15, who writes an "inside view" of the elections. The article is full of illuminating facts. This sort of publicity does the society good, and accounts for the growing respect that is being felt for it. When Phi Beta Kappa and its aims and methods are better understood, a key man will get almost as much honor as an "H" man. Articles like "Popular Errors About Phi Beta Kappa" help to bring the man of intellect almost on a par with the man of muscle...
Sophomores and Juniors are especially urged not to let this chance slip by. There are five weeks before the team is picked for the southern trip, and this has been shown to be ample time to develop an inexperienced man. W. E. NIGHTINGALE '15, Captain...