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...squad. With only a week to form his team and equip them with suitable defensive and offensive formations, Coach Haughton has a formidable task. As all of the men have been play- ing football on the regimental and brigade teams since the beginning of the season, however, he can omit much of the fundamental and early season work. Some of the squad were members of the Depot Brigade team which held the informals to a scoreless tie last Saturday...
...must be remembered, however, that the President's speech was only the most tentative of beginnings towards a policy which cannot even commence to take effect until the European War is brought to a close. In the meantime, with the outcome still trembling in the balance, ought we to omit preparations for all possible emergencies through reliance on a plan of universal peace, which even its most ardent supporters admit is at present little more than an ambitious hope? And it must also be noted that if a League to Enforce Peace does become a reality, the United States will...
...extinguished even by the wave of our modernism. We must not make Tacitus merely an object of linguistic or literary or historical study to a man who reads him for the first and, probably, for the last time, simply because Tacitus is great in all these fields and to omit one of them is to belittle the author. After all, even if scrambled eggs do not suit our taste, we must use some salt or pepper or bread or fire to go with them. A raw egg is hardly palatable to the average man. ARISTIDES E. PHOUTRIDES...
...Student Council Committee on Military Affairs has decided to omit the following section of the tentative enrollment agreement: "I shall endeavor, to the best of my ability, to attend, and will encourage others to attend, the camps of military instruction to be held during the summer of 1916." This has been done because the great number of hostile criticisms seemed to indicate that the consensus of opinion in the University is against this provision...
...means up to the highest standards which the magazine is capable of attaining. But it shows that the new Board is wholly alive and is keeping up the radical policy which is the raison d'etre of the Review. Only in future issues it should omit the phrases about the "sighing 'cellos' and other such commonplaces, not to mention the too frequent use of the first person singular. R. H. SESSIONS...