Word: spends
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...ever-weakening toll of Allied vessels. Per chance Kultur will make him scoff when he hears a flivver manufacturer is going to check his naval warfare, but more likely he will increase the number or improve the type of his underwater raiders. In spite of baffled expectations to spend the last few winters in popular European resorts, the Kaiser has not yet given up hope. The large submarine sinking claimed at times by the British, and the constant precautions to convoy vessels show the imperial shipyards can still turn out a large fleet. We doubt, however, if German efficiency will...
...time when the young man's fancy turns to the romantic, Von Hindenberg feels the call of Paris. Annually he longs for the life of the Quartier Latin, and annually he is forced to spend the summer months commuting from Russia to France. But the old game of war is not as amusing as formerly, the Bolsheviki refuse to go near the Mazurian Lakes, and the German people is loth to waste any more good nails on a wooden image of the Kaiser's right-hand...
...neglected, both Yale and Harvard have proved that it is possible to combine military work with organized athletics. Yale, with much longer hours of drill than ours, carried on a very successful rowing season in the fall. Harvard last year, while drilling five hours a week, managed to spend five days in every week at athletics without any loss of interest in either drill or sport...
...Canadian division has encouraged the education of soldiers by establishing a university in France. Men will receive training in varied subjects so that they can be certain of occupation upon their return home. Although it may seem strange for part of an army to spend time at classes, yet many troops either in billets during their turn out of the trenches, or else recovering from wounds, have considerable opportunity To provide a practical education for all soldiers it can reach is the aim of the school...
...present wave of departure is accounted for by the knowledge that the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, to which about 900 of the undergraduates belong, will be called upon by the Government in a few weeks. Many of its members are taking advantage of an opportunity to spend a short time at home before finally entering military service. When the call for members of the corps to report is made, it is estimated that the college membership will fall to about...