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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Such universal love of the land must call for our commendation. The desire to live for one's nation in a truck-garden rather than dying for the same cause in a trench shows a proper philosophic regard for the value of human life. One can fight with potatoes as well as bombs and reap the harvest wheat instead of an unkind enemy...
Officers of instruction and government, candidates for degrees, other students in the University, and the alumni do not themselves need tickets for admission to the Stadium. However, all candidates for degrees who desire tickets for their families must send their application on the proper blanks may now be obtained at the office of the Dean of their department of the University...
...prepare themselves for active service in the army or the navy, unless there is some other service of greater importance to the cause for which they are better fitted. This, I take it, is what is meant by a selective draft. It might be well if all men of proper age and not otherwise disqualified could enroll for the service of the government under a universal obligation to serve in the capacity to which they might be assigned by the public authorities. All men so enrolled should be subject to the control of the government and be liable...
...welcome pictures, even to the extent of two and a half pages, showing how other colleges are preparing for the war, but Yale water polo is a little out of place. Another unfortunate error, marring an otherwise excellent number, is the failure to give Dr. Sargent his proper title. It would be serious enough to refer to him merely as Mr. Sargent in any case, but to do so on the cover is inexcusable...
...knowledge as possible of the probability of occurrence of severe cold; of sudden thaws; of heavy rains; of great heat; of high winds--all this is a very essential element in planning a campaign or in organizing a single engagement. Picked troops, discipline, a well-organized system of transport, proper clothing--in short, all that goes to make up the most efficient military organization, is of supreme importance. But we must recognize the fact that the weather is by no means the least important of the many external factors which control military campaigns...