Word: minor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Enlistment in this contingent will be for the duration of the war. The units have been thrown open to members or graduates of the University who have slight physical disqualifications barring them from other service. Minor defects in sight and feet will probably be over-looked...
With the exception of a few minor details arrangements for this year's Class Day week have been finally completed. Practically the same program as in former years will be carried out, but the establishment of a training camp at the University will lend a new militaristic tone and add greatly to the exercises from a spectacular viewpoint...
...only sports beside football to afford a profit at Princeton were baseball and basketball. Hockey was a paying activity in 1914, but in the season of 1915-16 a deficit of $641 is recorded. Together with hockey, track, rowing, most of the minor sports and all freshman athletics showed losses. The receipts and expenditures from these sports, however, varied little from previous years. The only exceptions to this were track, which had an increase in expenses over revenue amounting to about $1,000, and soccer which also showed an augmented deficit...
...College dormitories and the mess will be held in the College dining halls. Before that time special arrangements will have to be made. Owing to the inability of the Government to furnish subsistence, members of the training corps will be obliged to pay for their board, uniforms, and some minor expenses which will all be at the lowest possible cost. Money is being subscribed by alumni to provide for students of the University who are unable to defray their expenses themselves...
...encouraging. There have been unmistakable signs of slackness in the college routine, for instance, in the preparation of the annual study cards for the Committee on Electives. With barely a week left ninety-four per cent of the undergraduates have shirked this simple duty. In itself a minor matter, such a record today has a fateful significance. It indicates a curious lack of perspective, and, worse still, a lack of self-control--precisely what the critics have asserted...