Word: months
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Charles Gouverneur Paulding '18 of Cold Spring on Hudson, N. Y., former president of the Monthly, has sailed for Copenhagen, as private secretary with Warwick Greene '01, chairman of the Rockefeller Foundation in France, on the Oscar H. After spending a month with a German family to learn the language they will make a tour of the warring nations, to investigate the prison camps. They are particularly interested in the work that the Y. M. C. A. is doing in these camps all over Europe...
Captain Thomas deW. Milling, of the United States Signal Corps, who is in charge of the aviation training schools established by the government under the new Reserve Officers' Training Corps Act, will come to Cambridge during the latter part of the month to speak to all members of the University who are interested in flying. According to the new law applications may be made for enrolment at one of the present training schools, and the applicant, if accepted, will undergo six months training at the expense of the government at the end of which time he will be commissioned...
...account of dropping the Tufts game, the contest with Amherst has been placed nearly a month later in the season. Otherwise no substantial changes have been made. The team will play West Point, Virginia, Annapolis, Catholic University, Johns Hopkins and Columbia on the spring vacation trip as usual...
...year ago this month the companies of the Harvard Regiment held their first drills in the wintry atmosphere of the baseball cage. Today the success and achievements of the thousand men who composed the Regiment are looked back on with pride and a feeling of wonder. On Wednesday, January tenth, a dinner for all the men enrolled last year will be held at the Union, in order to commemorate the establishing of the Regiment and to keep alive the spirit of sacrifice and patriotism that made possible the remarkable results which Captain Cordier obtained. Major-General Leonard Wood...
...ever denied that enjoyment is easier than work, although no doubt less satisfying. Yet no man ever denied that success in anything, at any time, demands hard and consistent work. The choice of a month of leisure or a month of preparation has now come to every man. Even the most slothful blessed with an average college man's intelligence may yet retrieve himself by diligent work. Almost without exception men will decide to do as they have done, the diligent will increase their diligence, the idlers will sleep. For the latter, hopeless as the warning is, it is well...