Word: restful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...addition to this opportunity for rest or recuperation, the soldier-students can also satisfy their desire to see how English universities are managed, what traditions they have, and how they train their undergraduates. We all should like to find out the ways of brother-students abroad. Oxford and Cambridge are the original patterns of our American universities. Our student-soldiers may learn much from a visit to those old seats of learning...
...whether our Krag is capable of putting us out of our misery, there is reason for happiness. There is no Bursar's bill till February and Phillips Brooks House has ceased plundering us, at least for the time being. Moreover, Christmas ultimately will come and with it days of rest far from the reach of U4. So we may garb ourselves in the one suit we hid from Max and trudge merrily to our nine o'clock to make Sever once more echo to the famous words: Not prepared. There is still something for which to be thankful...
...meeting of the University Athletic Committee yesterday evening, it was decided that because of the war the University's teams would remain informal for the rest of the year, and that in all probability no intercollegiate games would be played. Schedules in the various sports will be arranged for the most part with training camps and naval stations, as in the case of the informal football team this fall...
...former years it has been patronized largely by graduate students who could not get other exercise during the winter. The work will be of a very simple nature, requiring no preparation. Men who are only able to attend every other day or so can easily keep up with the rest of the class. No formal registration will be made or attendance kept. The course of training will last until the beginning of the April recess...
...talk on a subject connected with Austria because of his experiences during the last three years in the consulate at Vienna. When the United States broke off diplomatic relations with Austria-Hungary last spring, Mr. Halstead left Vienna on the special train which carried Ambassador Penfield and the rest of the American officials from that country. Since his return to the United States he has been connected with the State Department in Government work...