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...necessity of protecting the soldier's feet. Every man who goes into the army must take good care of himself, as if he were in training. A soldier is bound in honor to keep himself in good condition, for a sick man requires two additional men, one to look after him, and one to fill his place. He had much better be at home. It is often difficult to provide pure water and food, and the men, compelled to suffer heat and cold, and hard service, are constantly subject to sickness and exhaustion on this account...
...explains this by the fact that many Seniors have taken out life memberships, and thus have been transferred in classification. Several innovations were introduced by the retiring board, principally the receptions held for the victorious baseball and football teams and "the appointment of House, Pool, and Music Committees to look after the welfare of and promote activities among the members." The Treasurer's report shows a net loss of $6,614.62, as compared with last year's deficit...
Another new move was made in the appointment of House, Pool and Music committees to look after the welfare of and promote activities among the members. The Pool Committee organized a tournament which is still in progress and which includes thirty-seven men. The music committee has provided entertainments in the living room on several Friday evenings--an innovation which has been very enthusiastically received owing to the ability of the committee to obtain operatic performers...
...senator's research of history his ignorance of present day conditions is even worse. He denounces our colleges is even worse. He denounces our colleges as 'reactionary' and the 'greatest dead-weight the capitalist can fasten upon the necks of the American people. 'Politics,' he says, the colleges look upon as a low pursuit, and college opinion is regarded by our legislators as a joke. He thinks it a great pity that the political arm of our State and National Governments should not receive support from our colleges. Never in the history of the country have the nation...
...full appreciation of the size and complexity of the University, we must look over the sheaf of annual reports (too voluminous to be printed here) presented to the Board of Overseers at its last meeting. Here we find the statements of thirty-four separate official departments, from that of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to that of the Medical School Bureau of Appointments. It would be well for those who know only their own department, or at the most their own and two or three others, to ponder on the fact that the official work of the University...