Word: liking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...athletics; and there is here, as elsewhere, a general feeling that formal and important intercollegiate contests would be out of place at such a time as this. It is with great regret that we cancel our games. I have little doubt that your experience and your wishes are much like ours...
...Association officials, there will be no difficulty in connection with the cancellation of the schedules. Such action would necessitate calling off games with some colleges who will not suspend athletics, but no institution would so cling to their contract as to demand a payment of the guarantee under circumstances like the present. Financially, the year's receipts would be much larger than the expenditures, for the expenses of crew and the various Southern trips would be done away with, and the largest receipt item, the returns from football, is already...
...should like to ask, forgetting for a moment the false rhetoric and almost inconceivable bad taste of the latter, which of the two displayed more activity, ardor and self-sacrifice and supported with greater ability the greater cause--the subject of the above account or the writer of the editorial? While the latter, safe at home, was mouthing rhetorical rubbish about "the one loyalty" and the "greater cause," the men whom he attacked were saving lives at the constant risk of their own, to be reminded that "they were guilty of a misconception of duty"; that they are verging...
...part of its course of study since the institution was opened to students in 1868. The university aims to give all its undergraduates enough military training to qualify them to become officers of volunteers. Military efficiency of the highest order is attained. Delinquencies in drill are treated like any other academic failure, and the five per cent, who receive failure in the drill take the work over. Officers of the rating of captain and lieutenant are given faculty rating as assistants...
Cornell has a new armory, the largest university building of its kind in the country, in which 2,000 men can drill at the same time. The building, modelled something like the old Tudor castles, is 412 feet long, 228 feet wide, and four stories high. It is constructed of stone from the university quarries to conform with the other buildings of the same material on the campus. In the towers are rooms for the officers of the various companies, and for the minor organizations within the cadet corps; in the basement provision has been made for a rifle range...