Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...draft age limit will not be reduced below 21 years at the present time, is the opinion of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge '71, in a letter recently received by the CRIMSON. In the early part of the month communications from 66 members of Congress to the Yale News showed that although several senators and representatives favored a lowering of the draft age, a large majority opposed any change...
...Senator Lodge said: "The question has not come before Congress at this session, but the age limits for the draft were most fully considered at the time of the passage of the Act, and it seems to me doubtful if anything will be done to change them at the present time with over 9,000,000 men registered. I should certainly oppose any proposal of this nature...
...very little compared with the great work of relief carried on by the Red Cross in hospitals and battlefields, and among the civilian population in war-ridden France and Serbia and Italy and Roumania. However, it brings a thrill of pride to Americans and emphasizes the fact that the present drive for new members is simply another means afforded the people to aid this great cause. --Boston Herald...
...special mid-year examinations for the men who are going to the third camp at Yaphank will be held at 2.30 instead of at 2, in order to permit the men who would attend 1.30 classes and take the examinations posted for 2 o'clock to be present at the funeral...
...evening. This reception, which is an annual affair, was attended last year by about 150 men. President Lowell's reading from the Bible of the story of the Nativity of Christ was followed by several other readings, among them one by Professor Copeland. Later in the evening those present joined in singing carols...