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...earnestly recommend Mr. Lindsey's explanation of the War Risk Insurance difficulty to all members of the University returned and returning, believing that it will help to clear up many of the doubts which still persist on the subject...
...equipment issued to the R. O. T. C. during the year must be turned in at the Armory and the Supply Room in the basement of Persist Smith Hall by 5 o'clock Friday, June 7. No property not scrupulously clean can be accepted after having received the proper receipts, men will then apply at the Military Office for discharges or leaves of absence. Members of the Corps leaving College will be given discharges; those planning to attend the July Camp will be granted leave until July 1, and those not returning to College until the fall will be granted...
...with the weight of the advice of the biggest men in the country against us, it would be futile to persist. As President Lowell says, we are soldiers, "and the soldier does not select his duty...
...view of the altered conditions of military service consequent upon the entrance of the United States in the war, this Faculty believes that the best conservation of the resources of the country for the prosecution of the war demands that students, save in exceptional cases, should persist in the faithful discharge of their college duties until they reach the age of twenty years and nine months, when they may enter on the regular training required for a commission...
...whimsical humor to sharpen his judgement, he invariably carried the interest of his students with him where-ever he chose to turn the shafts of his penetrating criticism. Ridicule was his favorite weapon for the banal and he had no mercy for the pious shams, the stuffed dummies that persist in all literature. Always he was sane, sound and exacting. Thousands of young Americans have left his classroom bearing the stamp of his taste and the stores of his learning...