Word: reached
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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These faults can be changed, and they can be changed more easily by the undergraduate than through the professor. . . . . We must take a fresh hold, make a new start. We must give up snap courses, stop vaguely dreaming through lecture hours. We must aim at some definite goal--and reach it. We must work for a purpose. Cornell...
Foreign armies include in their ranks even boys, while we hesitate to enroll all who have reached their majority. That men between 20 and 22 years of age make enthusiastic, efficient soldiers needs no proof, nor can the authorities at Washington be ignorant of this fact. Not only do they show as much skill in fighting, but they also are less likely than older recruits to have dependents. Comparatively few have progressed so far in business or in any profession that their prospects of future success are seriously diminished. By enrolling men as they come of age the War Department...
...certain rank in some training corps does not make anyone even a non-com. It is the experience gained in preparatory regiments, in addition to natural or acquired ability, that wins high positions. Because a cadet has graduated from the R. O. T. C. he will not reach his goal, but because he has fitted himself sufficiently to be superior to those whom he leads he will. Since the leaders are the best men possible, whoever has trained thoroughly to win a commission will be almost certain to secure his prize, even if the enlists as a private. For these...
...canvass was in charge of a committee of the University Christian Science Society comprising W. Butterfield uC, A. P. Evans 3G, S. T. Ferguson '18 and A. E. Raymond '21. On account of the short time alloted for the collection, the canvassing committee was able to reach only a limited number of students...
...Reverend Dr. Ambrose W. Vernon, minister of the Harvard Congregational Church, Brookline, will conduct morning prayers in the Faculty Room, University Hall, this morning at 8.45 o'clock. The services close promptly at 9 o'clock in order to allow students to reach their classes at that hour...