Word: similarities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Since 1916, when Harold S. Gray '18, headed a similar committee, there has been no attempt made to reorganize it. The committee, with F. Willett 1G.B. as its chairman is composed of the following twenty-five men; O. Prescott, Jr., '20, D. F. McClure '20, M. Heard '20, P. K. Fisher '20, C. R. Steedman '20, F. Workum '20, T. G. Ames '20, J. B. Read '20, E. A. McCouch '20, W. Davis '21, S. A. Montague '21, D. H. Morris '21, A. W. Douglas '21, E. R. Beeler '21, J. H. Manning '21, C. A. Page...
...Goetz, head of the department of military science at the University, outlined briefly the advantages of the military courses offered here to about one hundred Freshmen gathered in Smith Halls Common Room yesterday evening. Colonel Goetz emphasized the fact that the military course is to be similar to any course in the University, in that there will be no uniforms nor drill for those taking it. It will also count full credit towards the degree of A.B. or S.B. In both these respects, it differs from the former R. O. T. C. here...
During the war, the scouts established an enviable record. They were found prepared to help whenever called upon, obtaining no less than three hundred million dollars in subscriptions during the Liberty Loan drives, fifty million in the War Savings Stamp campaign, and similar commendable records in other drives...
...genuine cause for annoyance among earnest students in the University. When these books cannot be otherwise accounted for by attendants in the Reading Room, the suspicion that they have been taken by persons' who, having themselves immediate use for them, do not recognize the rights of others to similar use, appears to be not unfounded. The books placed on the reference shelves are for general circulation, and it need hardly be pointed out that persons removing, for private use, books many of which are essential or highly important in preparation for examinations, are acting unfairly toward their fellow students...
...than have the colleges and universities of this country, and a greater proportion of them have been killed. The University of Toronto, for instance, contributed about 5,400 men from students' bench and professors' chair, of whom 604 gave up their lives, or somewhat more than 10 per-cent. Similar contributions have been made by Oxford and Cambridge, and by other English and Scotch universities. Over 11,176 Oxford men had enrolled by the middle of the war, and afterward the number was much greater; 1,412 had laid down their lives and 100 were missing. In the University...