Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...branches of Government service. Age, physical disqualifications--often of a minor nature--the wishes of parents, the special obligations of some students to their parents the lack of an imperative call on such men for patriotic service--all these reasons fully justify many men in holding steadily to their present tasks, whether by remaining in the university or taking up other non-military work. I think we all must realize that a certain insidious form of silent pressure is brought to bear on such men to follow the crowd and enlist somewhere, somehow. A few men are anxious to enlist...
...this spirit of wanting to get in to Government service, may easily be come a kind of hysteria. It is hard to withstand the inclination to follow the line of least resistance. It will take real moral heroism for many men to hold steadily to their present duties. They owe it, however, to themselves, their parents, their friends and their country...
...members of the present Freshman and Sophomore classes are eligible to compete...
...model of the Hawaiian volcano Kilauea, which Robert Wilcox Sayles '01, of Brookline, will present to the University, has just been completed and is now installed in the Geological Museum. Mr. Sayles will give the model to the University this spring in memory of his sister, Caroline M. Sayles...
...Society has arranged a varied program for its celebration on Memorial Day in Sanders Theatre. The program will be introduced by the customary procession. Major Henry L. Higginson '55 and Professor Barton Perry '98 will speak and, Captain Cordier has stated that the R. O. T. C. will be present as a unit...