Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...comparatively easy to send out a patriotic appeal for workmen to enter the shipbuilding industry on the basis of the supreme need for ships in our present war crisis. The matter of selecting those who offer their services is a very much more difficult question...
...question if the movements of geese in Florida waters can supply much of this, however, even if they are moving north. The Canada geese winter just south of the ice, in ordinary winters being found about Cape Cod even in the severest weather. This year the tidal flats which are their favorite feeding places have been iced up far below their usual limits. It may well be that they have gone farther south in unusual numbers, and are merely taking a brief trip up the coast for a "look in" on more familiar feeding places...
...upperclass baseball candidates will be called out immediately after the mid-year examinations. It is not known, however, what material there is in college, so that no predictions can be made as to the strength of the Yale team. The question of a series with Princeton and the University will be settled in the near future...
...have had trouble with objects and people made in Germany and transported to the United States, but at last some things of Teutonic origin have begun to do their share towards aiding the Allied cause. The German liners interned here during the war are the objects in question...
Although the measure has been disposed of, the situation is unchanged. In spite of five holidays and plans for festive Mondays, neither anthracite nor bituminous is more plentiful. The coal question remains a serious thing. It was thought that the Student Council's plan of early retiring and early rising would contribute Harvard's small share to the solution of this problem. The student body has thought otherwise. Among the opponents of this plan there were heard those who condemned official action and advocated individual effort. Let every individual have it as his duty to economize coal and its derivatives...