Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Despite this remarkable progress, there still exists a group of selfish and contemptible individuals who will forever place their own interests before the interests of humanity,--who, in other words, have not read the "signs of the times". Such persons will be given little recognition, if any, at the coming peace conference...
...reconstruction of college athletics will go, and to what extent the whole system will be built up. Plans will be discussed as to the development of athletics on a modified scale, with the purpose in view of giving as high-class football as there was before the war, and still maintain a less lavish standard. The travelling expenses of teams could be diminished and the training-table abolished. The main subject of debate will evolve around the question of the possibility of turning out good teams without these expenditures. Again it is likely that there will be a strong desire...
Since a degree and not a commission has become the new goal of every undergraduate still in the military units, hitherto inexorable military rules and regulations should be relaxed as far as is practicable. It is but a few weeks until the non-commissioned officers and privates will all be civilians pursuing their regular college work again. Consequently, it is vastly more important to them and to the Nation, too, that they should have adequate time for the preparation of college courses, than that the doorknobs of the Freshman dormitories should outshine...
Although hostilities have ceased in Europe, the truck drivers sent over by the American Red Cross will be still kept at work for an indefinite period, covering at least a year. Their work will consist largely in transporting food and clothing to the poor in the districts evacuated by the Germans, and in aiding generally in the reconstruction work...
...informed from Washington that the S. A. T. C. will continue, at least for the present, just as if the war were still going on. The men are particularly urged to continue to put the same spirit in their academic work as well as their military work. They will receive credit for all this work, and their efficiency will be a great factor in determining their rating as possible officer material. This war has clearly shown that colleges are the natural reservoirs for officer material, and all members of the S. A. T. C. will be given opportunity to prove...