Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Moore '93, Graduate Treasurer of the Athletic Association, has just sent over 500 footballs to the American soldiers in France as a present from the University graduates. This first consignment will be followed by others, as the demand arises...
...France they settle down to a life of charging Germans, dodging shells, and eating Y. M. C. A. food. The truth is that the American soldier is off-duty more than on, and decent recreation is essential. Sending extra footballs for the athletic man is a much better Christmas present than a few pounds of chewing gum or similar trench luxuries. Such human gifts are always more appreciated than useless luxuries from a loving family...
...will be postponed from 2 o'clock till 2.30, consequently extending half an hour after the time already announced for their close. It is planned that the members of the University School for Ensigns who were in Lieutenant Greene's classes will march behind the funeral procession and be present at the services in a body...
...directly concerned by this new scheme, since a commission is the diploma of our military education, the present goal of most undergraduates. Abolition of Plattsburg officers' training camps together with the encouraged promotion of men from the ranks, leaves preliminary instruction more necessary than ever. Whether or not the present system of sending men to Yaphank continues, we know that ultimately a man of sufficient calibre will be an officer, and that thorough preparation will hasten the attainment of this end. The duty of R. O. T. C.'s is to provide not merely candidates for special camps, but soldiers...
...Waterloo, the Alamo, the peach orchard at Gettysburg, are examples of a spirit in which the American soldier has a share by inheritance direct, or by acquired collateral interest through adoption of our ideals and our citizenship. This trait of blood and breeding has been called upon in the present war; it will be called upon again, many times, and not in vain. We shall not be plagued with regrets over what we might have won, with one more effort. Boston Herald...