Word: short
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Friday evening will be devoted to a short lecture on riflery, in which the details of the work planned for the following day will be explained by an officer of the Army. "Commence firing" will be ordered tomorrow morning at 7 o'clock, and from that time on interest will centre about the firing points. Instruction practice will be held tomorrow morning. Shooting for record will begin in the afternoon, and will continue on Sunday...
...special course in practice fire and record work has been arranged with a view to affording the greatest variety of practice possible in the short time allowed. Five shots each will be fired from 200, 300 and 500 yards in kneeling, sitting and prone positions, respectively, during the preliminary practice...
...prose, Mr. Hill's "Repatriation Service in France" lacks finish, but makes up for the lack by sincerity and substance: Mr. Eastman's "After the Dance" is a short fanciful sketch. "Death and the devil," it may be fairly said, have "done for the rest." J. D. writes with sardonic force on suicide; Mr. Williams depicts vituperative Frenchmen "bandying jovial indecencies" till the order comes: "All sections roll tomorrow at four. ***Trenchbombs." Mr. Sparks tells of an aviator killed in an accident and of the French girl who mourned him. As in many stories that deal with passion, the author...
...maximum of which it is capable of rendering. A hundred percent institution today is one which is devoting the entire energy and ability humanly possible to the support of the Government. Hopeless as such theoretical perfection may be, there can nevertheless be no doubt that universities are falling short of what may reasonably be expected of them. With the end of those initial out-pourings of men, they have failed to keep pace with the increased energies of the remainder of the nation's life...
...Faxon, president of the class of 1921, will preside at the festivities, and will made a short address. J. A. Sessions, class secretary-treasurer, will also speak, and J. M. Mitchell, who is chairman of the 1921 Third Liberty Loan Committee, will tell of the part the class will play in floating the new bond issue...