Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Tickets for Class Day may be procured by officers, graduates, and undergraduates of the University, applications closing June 2. Seniors are given two special chances as usual to get tickets early. The first application, open only to Seniors, will close on May 12, when the following maximum number of tickets may be procured at reduced rates: two Sanders Theatre at 75 cents each, 12 Stadium at 50 cents each, 10 Memorial Hall at 50 cents each, 10 Yard at 20 cents each, and 10 Senior Spread at $2.50 each. The second application, also open only to members of 1917, will...
...face the first of the special final examinations, the outlook is not encouraging. There have been unmistakable signs of slackness in the college routine, for instance, in the preparation of the annual study cards for the Committee on Electives. With barely a week left ninety-four per cent of the undergraduates have shirked this simple duty. In itself a minor matter, such a record today has a fateful significance. It indicates a curious lack of perspective, and, worse still, a lack of self-control--precisely what the critics have asserted...
...must be understood in the first place that a naval officer requires training of a most complicated type--he must understand navigation, the handling of guns and many other things not necessary to a lieutenant of infantry. Without such special training the great mass of college men are not fitted to become naval officers of even the lowest rank, although they might make most capable second lieutenants in the army. The various branches of the naval service are, however, in great need of men, and there are many positions in which college men can be of valuable service...
...Special Examination for the same degree will take place at 10.15 tomorrow morning in the New Lecture Hall instead of at 10 o'clock as previously announced...
...present war has provided an unusual opportunity to study the influence of weather upon modern military operations. Each war zone has its own special climatic types, and present its own peculiar problems. On the western front, the chief difficulty has been the autumn and winter rains, not so much because these are unusually heavy, but because of their frequency. On the eastern front the winters are more severe than in the west. There has been more suffering on account of the cold, and because of snow storms. The importance of long spells of freezing weather, during which alone the marshes...