Word: strength
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Total figures of enrolment last night were 849. In order to reach the full strength of 12 companies 111 more men must be enrolled. But as this number is not sufficient for headquarters staff, at least 175 more names should be added to the military roster by 6 o'clock. The committee of 60 will continue their canvass of the dormitories today in a final endeavor to secure additional enlistments...
...this time of universal preparedness for war it is natural that we should think first of the development of a strong home army. Yet the need of our navy is no less important. For defence or aggression we must trust in the first instance to our strength...
...University did not have its full strength. Captain Hunt Wentworth '17, J. A. Machado '17 and W. C. Hubbard '19 were absent...
...same thing is true of hockey. A fast game of hockey requires more "wind" than any other branch of athletics, except, perhaps, distance running, and a squad of strong substitutes is a great asset to a hockey team. In this lies much of the University's strength in hockey. The seven second-string players as a whole do not, of course, make as strong a team as the regulars. But the calibre of Coach Winsor's substitutes is such that several of them can go into a game at almost any time with practically no loss of power...
...except in one point: that Germany, in sinking British contraband, has sunk Americans who were in close proximity thereto. I did not uphold Germany's action at the time, but as an American I saw no good reason why my country should assume the responsibilities of war on the strength of that occurence. Having allowed that crisis to pass, what reasonable excuse have we now? Germany has done nothing. She has merely declared a blockade which is at least as defensible as England's, and no more likely to injure our so-suddenly, resuscitated national honor...