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...shared by other colleges. A rifle team's value is one of the many details which the war has brought to the fore. It is now easy to conceive what the worth of a general taking up of the sport throughout the country would be. It would mean scores of expert shots just so much further along in their training for combat. Though rifle teams and gun clubs use small calibre weapons, it is with these that the soldier is given his first and fundamental training, "gallery practice." Expertness with a sub-calibre rifle on a college rifle team would...
...first place, there appear to be an unusual number of students in various departments of the college who are anxious to earn money just now, and the earning is never better that it is during the holiday season. In the second place, an extension of the vacation will mean for Tufts considerable economies in its use of fuel for heating, despite the fact that special provision will be made to continue uninterrupted the work of those students of drafts age who are now taking special intensive course to prepare themselves for service in one or another branch of the military...
...message delivered at the opening of Congress shows no change of policy. We are still fighting for the overthrow of Prussianism, for reparation to the Allies, for world justice. The President has reassured the nation that we are going to see the war through, even though, it may mean the using of much of our resources, both in man and material...
...years are, next to the finals, the worst event of a college year, but they are a trial that must be gone through with, So the main thing to do is to get ready. If we start now and brush up the dusty spots, the examinations will not mean hours of difficult preparation and sleep less nights, but instead will seem comparatively easy...
...first requisite of loyalty is enthusiastic and intelligent support of the Government in its war policy. In all countries, it has been the most highly educated that have most strongly supported the war against Germany because they best realized what a defeat from that nation would mean to the world. Enthusiastic support means work, and particularly cheerful work, both in the curriculum and in the military side of the university. Intelligent support means that each man is to prepare himself for the work for which he thinks. himself best fitted. In general, for the men here that signifies preparation...