Word: perring
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...enlist for the duration of the war. If at the end of the course they are not recommended for commissions, they will be required to remain in service and finish their enlistment. While students they will receive the pay and allowance of first-class privates, amounting to about $30 per month, plus food, clothing and quarters...
...scope per fortnight can be found to show the war-time activities of the University, but the allotment of pictures in the current number is a trifle unusual. The same photographer who went to Princeton also got up early enough to snap one of the R. O. T. C. companies passing through the Stadium gate on a rainy morning. His enterprise again gave a picture that even the wet weather couldn't quite spoil. Among the "newsy" pictures are those of the victorious Freshman cross-country team and the new Sophomore class officers...
Taking the figures of male enrolment alone, the decrease is seen to approach 25 per cent. It must be remembered that such proportion of losses is as nothing to the reductions which institutions abroad have undergone. From them come reports that 85 or 90 per cent of all their undergraduates are at the front...
With a registration of 296, the Law School has lost proportionately more men because of the war than the College, as the present enrolment shows a decrease of 560 or 65 per cent. Over last year. The registration is divided among the classes as follows: first year, 96; second year, 89; third year, unclassified, 31; resident graduates, 75. All are graduates of colleges with the exception of three, who have attended law school for varying periods...
Striking testimony to the prosperity and wealth of the country is presented in the fact that although only 20 per cent has thus far become due on the Liberty 4 per cent, loan, and the final payment of 40 per cent, will not be required until January 15, more than 80 per cent, of the whole $1,163,000,000 allotted to the reserve district has already been paid...