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...Yeomans will address the meeting from an academic to point of view. Their object will be to point out the relation between success in college today and ability to win out in the crises of tomorrow. Mr. Clark, on the other hand, will approach the subject from an industrial standpoint, and will state the business and manufacturing sides of the question. In his work with the Plymouth Cordage Company and several important mining properties in Mexico, he has had wide experience with very successful labor propositions, and is, therefore, highly qualified to represent the industrial world...
...which doesn't mean morals) or a new spirit of efficiency in College. For exactly the same reason that an army camp rises early, the College should arouse itself at least an hour earlier and find itself incalculably better in spirit and efficiency. From a broad and all-seeing standpoint, he is a slacker who votes "no" on daylight-saving, and this we must all conclude and agree on. A. BURROUGHS...
...could ascertain its effect on the German proletariat we should doubtless find that it has tremendously increased the difficulty of keeping the German autocracy in the saddle. There is reason to think that the German Emperor and his adviser are today viewing the question of peace more from the standpoint of maintaining intact the existing bureaucratic government than from any other angle. It is not that they are in terror of being overwhelmed in the field, but the first care of a autocrat is always for his own skin, and there is no telling what sort of backfire another year...
...anyone is in doubt as to what his part should be with regard to these military courses, let him attend the meeting in the New Lecture Hall tonight. He will be appealed to not on any emotional grounds, but from a standpoint of cold logic...
...Germany the University Engineering Camp at Squam Lake, N. H., will not be held this year. A large number of the members of the University who intended to take courses at the camp this summer are now in the service of the country and from practically every standpoint it was deemed inadvisable to attempt to hold the camp this year. It is planned, however, to hold the camp as usual in the summer of 1918, and unless the war continues through that time, those plans will undoubtedly be carried...