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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Cornell has a new armory, the largest university building of its kind in the country, in which 2,000 men can drill at the same time. The building, modelled something like the old Tudor castles, is 412 feet long, 228 feet wide, and four stories high. It is constructed of stone from the university quarries to conform with the other buildings of the same material on the campus. In the towers are rooms for the officers of the various companies, and for the minor organizations within the cadet corps; in the basement provision has been made for a rifle range...
...theorists, but also among the practical business men and legislators of the day. It is quite natural that this great ability should be needed at Washington in the perplexing decade ahead. When his national service is completed we sincerely hope that he will return to take up his old position as a member of the Faculty and brilliant expounder of economic principles...
...full number of enlistments are not obtained enough experienced drivers will be taken away from the present sections, without hurting their efficiency, to complete the two new units. The corps will accept as many men as volunteer, however, as vacancies are constantly occurring in the three old sections of the corps, when the six-month terms of enlistment for the men expire...
...this condition appears to fall on the younger men, for the young teacher is not able to earn $2,500 until appointment as an assistant professor. If he rises to the top of his profession, he is earning $5,500 by the time he is about 55 years old...
...Said--and She Believed Him" is a long, complicated name for a short and rather familiar type of play. We can all remember "Stop Thief," "Officer 666" and others which do not contain policemen. "He Said, etc." contains all the same ingredients of these old familiar farces, including the policeman. When this officer is asked whether he is or is not primitive, he replies that he is Irish. You expected as much. The play is full of the kind of clever lines that the gentle reader could easily have made up himself...