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...shirk jury duty on the least excuse. Jury-dodging is one of the easiest things in the world; a plea if important business, physical weakness, or travel--excuses which the judge can scarcely question--are easy roads to freedom. But such evasion is sure to lead back to the slacker himself; if he refuses service himself, how can he expect a competent jury when his own case comes up for trial...
Sunday Evening Musical Service of Worship, 7.30 P.M. Three musicians from Boston Symphony Orchestra, accompanied by organ play nine selections. Pastor Preaches third in series of "Dangerous Tendencies in Modern Life." Subject; "The Slacker." The Musical program is as follows...
...office. Although they may believe him unsuited for office for other reasons, it is both inconsistent and unjust for Republican papers, which, during the war praised him for the capable manner in which he filled his office, to turn about now and attack Franklin Roosevelt as a "slacker...
...liability to himself and to the University whose advantages he simply prevents someone else from obtaining. The win-the-war need for moral effort is past, but the need for moral effort exists as strongly as before. The student who merely aims to "get by" is a slacker in times of peace no less than in times...
...remaining group of undergraduates--those who may plan comfortable holidays at home or away from it--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...