Word: short
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...well prepared for a second lieutenant's commission, and even if the War Department declined to recognize the school by automatically issuing commissions to its graduates, I think it would be all the better that they should go straight into the ranks for a period that would undoubtedly be short, as their competence would give them their step before long. It seems to me that the University could well afford to say to students who had taken such a course with a view to becoming officers in the army, that at any time after completing it they should be entitled...
Candidates for the Freshman track managership will be called out next Monday when they will report at the Locker Building at 2.30 o'clock in the afternoon. The competition will be comparatively short, lasting probably from six to eight weeks. The two positions of manager and assistant manager of the Freshman team will be filled as the result of the competition, the manager probably receiving his numerals...
...managerial competitions will be a comparatively short one, ending about February 15. No previous experience is necessary. The competition includes taking charge of the details of practice and games and doing, under supervision, nearly all the work connected with the management of the informal and Freshman teams. There are five places to be filled, those of manager and assistant manager of the Freshman team, and the managership of the three dormitory sevens. Exact details will be given at the meeting...
Freshman managers will probably be called out on Thursday, and the players soon afterward. The managerial competition will be comparatively short, ending about February 15. There are five places to be filled, those of manager and assistant manager of the Freshman team, and the managership of the three dormitory sevens. Exact details will be given at the first candidates' meeting. No previous experience is necessary...
Such a move will be greatly appreciated by our college men. Permission to stay, even for a very short while, inside those universities, which have been a centre of intellectual progress for many centuries, will make a welcome change from the turmoil and worries of the front. Many Americans have no friends abroad with whom they can spend their leaves-of-absence, and since they are unable, unlike English-men to return home, any opportunity to breathe again a college atmosphere is certain to be eagerly sought. In a country where everyone is a stranger, a familiar environment helps...