Word: risk
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...confused tangle which the War Risk Insurance problem has meant to most undergraduates since their discharge from the service, comes a ray of light in the form of an official letter on the subject, which is printed elsewhere in this issue. In this letter Mr. Henry Lindsey, Director of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance at Washington, urges college men not to forget the advantages of the renewal and ultimate conversion of their policies, during the rush of college life...
...hope it will not again be necessary for me to risk the revival of acrimonious altercations, as your position concerning the red-covered and ridiculous juvenile Harvard Magazine has compelled me to do. CHARLES MACVEAGH...
...been received from Washington requiring that all men be examined physically not more than 24 hours before their discharge. Before rereiving their discharges all men must sign the following forms: final endorsement of service record, final pay-roll, pay card, and honorable discharge papers. The men who have war risk insurance must also make the necessary arrangements about discontinuing or transferring this...
...times like these that the value of the R. O. T. C. is brought home. Through it alone can we prepare for commissions without first spending months as privates in the Army and even then running the risk of not being sent to an officers' school...
...know that it is hard to stay at work here. It is harder to lie down under fire than charge at a greater risk. But if it is one's duty it must be done, and the soldier does not select his duty. He does what is considered best for the contingent as a whole. A. LAWRENCE LOWELL