Word: summers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...order to meet the country's need for workers next summer in various branches of national service, two Eastern colleges have decided to terminate the college year much earlier next spring than usual. Pennsylvania State College will close on April 23, with commencement exercises on the 24th, while Brown University will change its calendar entirely, condensing the college year into a much shorter period without losing any classroom or laboratory work. Commencement day for Brown will come on Wednesday, May 29. Pennsylvania State will have no Easter vacations as a result of this arrangement, while that of Brown has been...
...able to enter on various forms of service at the earlier date, if it is quite possible for them to do so by a little more effort. In carrying out the scheme, Brown will make a thorough canvass of the student body to determine each man's qualifications for summer service in order that he may be placed to advantage...
...work. Practice is held regularly on Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons at 3 o'clock. All instruction is under the personal direction of Coach Leslabay, who, as a captain in the R. O. R. C., had full charge of the bayonet work in the University corps last summer...
...While a member of the first-year organization he played on the football team and served as secretary-treasurer of the Aero Club. His school career was interrupted when he left College to enlist in the Aviation School of the University of Illinois. There he was a student last summer until his summons was received to embark for France...
...Harvard undergraduate has gone to bed every night knowing that he would probably get up safe in the morning. He has not worried about life. He has not take any risk. And, Yet he doesn't want to get up an hour earlier. At Plattsburg and at Barre last summer he did it, and it didn't hurt...