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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Cheerfulness is a virtue ordinarily so difficult of achievement in these days that the editor of the Graduates' Magazine must be congratulated on the optimistic tone of the March number. The note is struck in Mr. Wister's sketch of the late Evert Jansen Wendell, in which the great-hearted "perpetual undergraduate" is depicted wart and all. The secret of Wendell's personality was an abiding youthfulness or, to use Mr. Wister's phrase, an innocence that "never shrank from its full original stature." Like all youths he was swept ahead by enthusiasms, sometimes to the detriment of social conventions...
Radio activity is rather well illustrated in the current Lampoon. Our naval neighbors attain none too much attention in this number that is especially dedicated to them, but what there is of it is good--and proper...
Lastly, there is in and around the Yard a fair number of men with whom, in class or out, I have had some personal contact. Most if not all of these men I count as friends. They will probably have heard me mention, the word "truth"; and, in the course of a half-year, two or three other words. They will have observed, I hope, or if not my work here has been a failure, a certain attitude towards the universe and towards life--a fairly definite attitude. I desire these men, at least, to do what in them lies...
...annual report of the Law School for the year of 1916-17 shows that part of the University to have been the hardest hit by the war, as far as enrolment is concerned. Slightly more than one-third of the number of men who attended the Law School last spring returned in the fall to continue their studies...
...hence specially called, to enter the officers' training camps opened by the Federal Government early in May. Accordingly, nearly every able-bodied student in the School not already in the National Guard or the Naval Reserve applied for admission to some one of those camps, and a large number were admitted. Before the end of the school year two graduate students out of 10, 187 first-year students out of 334, 131 second-year students out of 234, 56 third-year students out of 213, and 36 unclassified students out of 66, were either in the service or in officers...