Word: nears
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...football conditions at Columbia are very unsettled at present, because many of the leading players expect to be recommended for an O. T. C. in the near future; this will leave the team with a comparatively weak line. Coach Dawson found a great deal of trouble filling these vacant positions because of the scarcity of material and the lack of time in which to train the available men; nevertheless, the team successfully opened its season last Saturday by defeating the Camp Merritt team 7 to 0, and the management has already arranged for future games in which is included Amherst...
...lonesome sort of place. Letters make it livable--and mails are laggards. When I wrote last the examinations of auto-school loomed cruelly ahead--but they were over in a breath, a sweltering breath to be sure, but passable. Arriving back at the Section near the Aisne and overlooking the now retaken S---, I had two days of airy breathing, then like a sudden gale came the drive and our retreat. Clothes didn't come off anywaysoever for a full three weeks. The work was never so jumbled before, the throbbing tide of days so over-whelming. Poor, poor refugees...
...estimated in the first part of the week. Out of this number one company will be formed and barracked in Holworthy, Hollis, and Stoughton. It may be found impossible to house the entire company in these Yard dormitories, in which case the men will be placed in the near vicinity of their company barracks...
...number of those who joined the S. A. T. C. without entering any regular class, a total of 668. In the College proper there was an increase only in the unclassified students, every class being smaller than a year ago. The only other departments of the University to come near holding their own were the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Bussey Institution, and the Medical School...
...designated a commandant and three staff officers to be in charge of the University unit of the S. A. T. C. These men have already assumed their duties in Cambridge, and it is expected that a fifth staff officer will be detailed here by the War Deparement in the near future...