Word: similarities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...wars that it becomes important for every officer to have at least a superficial knowledge of the commonest military engineering matters. As an illustration of this, every West Point graduate is a technically trained man. Members of the R. O. T. C., if fortunate, are going to get ranks similar to those of West Point graduates and you can appreciate the importance of at least a slight familiarity with the kinds of problems at which men in the engineering corps must be expert...
...games will be with nearby service, professional and amateur teams. Just when inter-battalion contests will be started is uncertain, but they will be largely for the men who are not up to the standard of the two first teams. A 1921 inter-dormitory schedule of approximately nine games, similar to those of 1915 and 1916, will be started soon after the first Freshman squad is chosen...
...Germans, dodging shells, and eating Y. M. C. A. food. The truth is that the American soldier is off-duty more than on, and decent recreation is essential. Sending extra footballs for the athletic man is a much better Christmas present than a few pounds of chewing gum or similar trench luxuries. Such human gifts are always more appreciated than useless luxuries from a loving family...
...recent statement to the Yale News, E. D. Brandegee '81, Regent of the University, favors strongly the idea of a Junior dance this winter, provided it coincides with "the spirit of the times" and provided that there is no undue extravangce. Dean McLenahan of Princeton, in a similar statement, has expressed much the same sentiments, saying that a dance has been held at Princeton already, and that it was considered successful...
There are now on exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum two primitive Italian paintings lent by Mr. A. Kingsley Porter, lecturer of architecture at Yale University. One of the pictures is a figure of St. Michael, by the Byzantine Gothic Guariento of Padua. The form is very similar to the figures of the angels of the Heavenly Host, by the same painter, in the Museum of Padua. The other picture is by a pupil of the Paduan Squarcione, Gregorio Schiavone; it was recently shown in the exhibition of Italian primitives at the Kleinberger galleries, New York. It represents a Madonna...