Word: standings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...commanding officer of the unit for transfer to this branch of the service. Such applicants will be first examined by a naval officer who will forward recommendations for their acceptance to Washington. Men who possess the proper physical qualifications and have an aptitude for this branch of work, stand an excellent chance of admission...
...Roll of Honor now stands in the entrance corridor of the Widener Library building, and since Memorial Day several names have already been added to the list. It is frankly a contemporary memorial, a current token of recognition, not intended to stand as the University's permanent tribute to its fallen sons. From London a correspondent of the Bulletin has recently written: "At University College yesterday I saw one side of the corridor lined with photographs, four rows deep of graduates and students killed in this war. When one goes the provost writes a letter of sympathy and asks...
...Walker '20 are absent in the service, but letters will be sent to them and a decision reached as soon as possible. Those of the Athletic Committee present decided to place the entire matter in the hands of the graduates and undergraduate members and to stand back of any action they may take...
...These orders stand," said General Wood, parting from the division. "The only thing to do is to do the best we can to win the war. That's what we are here for; that's what you have been trained for." Of the President he would only say that he had been "very courteous and very considerate." Of France only this: "I think the line will hold...
...places a financial difficulty on future generations; the amount of money it will realize is indefinite; its success may not always be assured. Yet despite all this, it possesses political and psychological advantages of undoubted merit. Where the public, already crushed by the tax-collector's demands, would not stand any increase in taxation, it gladly buys bonds. There is no better stimulus than a Liberty Loan campaign for arousing patriotic spirit and putting the whole nation behind the wheel of war. Bonds have their serious limitations, but they stir the popular imagination...