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...merit the strictest censure. The coming months will be no time for white flannels and tennis racquets. Although the arm of the "slacker law" cannot reach behind the 21-year wall the under age loafer is no less a useless dead weight, hardly "worth his feed." With every shipyard and every farm calling for men, his duty to work is imperative. Of the three months and more of vacation ten weeks should be the minimum which he should give. Nor should those who attend the July Camp feel that their duties are over in mid-August; the fate of next...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GIVE YOUR COUNTRY YOUR VACATION. | 6/4/1918 | See Source »

...courts because of inability to secure employment. Federal, state and municipal employment offices guarantee to all applicants suitable work. If by any chance such work cannot be provided, exemption cards are issued. In the allotment of positions preference is given to the more essential war-time activities, agricultural, shipyard and munitions work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BAN ON IDLENESS | 5/23/1918 | See Source »

...active campaign to enroll in some part of farm, shipyard or munition plant work all students in the University who do not attend a summer military camp was launched yesterday by Morris Gray, secretary of the Student Employment Bureau of the University. Personal letters explaining the importance of the work and the need for men were sent, together with enrolment blanks, to all members of the University. Details in regard to the positions can not be published for two weeks yet, but ample remuneration will be afforded the workers. All men who do not intend-to enter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Campaign Launched to Enroll Students in Summer War Work | 3/20/1918 | See Source »

Side by side with the discouraging news from Russia are printed the results of the Congressional investigation in the Hog Island shipyard, Philadelphia. Unchallenged evidence points out land sold to the Government for ten to twenty times its normal price, and thousands of dollars spent to no purpose by the contractors. The responsibility rests upon certain "great American capitalists," not named...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOT ABOVE REPROACH | 2/13/1918 | See Source »

...crews since the first two University boats met Princeton on Lake Carnegie during the spring recess, University C beat B three times and B won from C twice last Saturday. The new eight-oared shell built for the use of the University crews at Ward's shipyard in New Jersey was used for the first time on the river. It proved to be satisfactory in every way. At the Union Boat Club, Coach Herrick had the two crews stop and change shells, giving University B, which had been racing with C in the new boat, a chance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CREWS B AND C RACED SATURDAY | 5/1/1916 | See Source »

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