Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...American agency that is doing a far-reaching work for good among our boys overseas--the American University Union, which has taken possession of the Royal Palace Hotel in Paris. And it should be made plain that there are no unhappy class distinctions in the work in question, for the headquarters and bureau are maintained "for the friends" of our college boys in France, as well as for the boys themselves. The work was inevitable from the first, in view of the thousands of young American collegians, alumni and undergraduates, who hurried to France even before this country entered...
...closely related question arises in this same connection. Ought not this policy to be extended to students in all branches of applied science and indeed to advanced students of pure science as well? There are no fixed limits between applied science and engineering if the latter term is broadly construed. The chemical expert may not call himself an engineer but in these days of chlorine gas, thermite bombs and other such instruments of carnage he is quite as indispensable on the battlefront as the builder of roads and bridges. All applied science, moreover, depends on pure science...
...election of the Class Day officers will be held within a week after the return from the Christmas vacation, probably on Tuesday, January 8. The question of whether the elections shall be held on one day only for members of the Senior Class now in College, or whether cards shall be sent out to all the members of the class has not been decided...
...discussing the matter, 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...
...Today four candidates are so sure that they are to be people's choice that they have left off old-time political methods and placed the matter in the hands of that mysterious figure, the Common People. There has been no bitterness in this campaign; it has been a question of impressing upon the public how small a chance the other three opponents had of walking into the City Hall in an official capacity. A voter and a gambler both enjoy picking a winner. But if a voter were to take all the recent campaign speeches seriously, he would have...