Word: summers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...limited to any one class of workingmen. This summer the great increase in their activities is the result of a desire to take advantage of the country while it is engaged in war, and being supplied with large funds of money if not from German representatives at least from German sympathizers, they have been particularly active in their attempts to destroy our food supply and prevent the production of war minerals. In these attempts they have been singularly successful. Grain elevators are still being burned and copper mining in Butte has been paralyzed since spring...
...University interests will be in charge of Chalmers Clifton '12, who is leaving soon for Paris. He was a member of the R. O. T. C. last summer, completing the entire course of training. Owing to a recent operation he has been declared unfit physically for active service, and the University has taken advantage of this opportunity to secure him for the work in Paris...
...thrive without competing with the other. If the Elis were infantrymen we would gladly journey to New Haven and meet them in mortal combat, say with blank cartridges at fifty yards or even with wooden bayonets at a shorter distance. Yet with so many Yale men up here last summer, there has grown up a certain comradeship between the Universities. We thirst no longer for their blood. The result is the idea of a joint drill...
...University a week from today, both the exercise in the trenches and the formal review will take place at Fresh Pond. The members of Military Science 2 will first take part in a maneuver in the trenches similar to those carried out by the R. O. T. C. last summer. After this, the regiment will form as a unit including the students enrolled in both courses and will be inspected by the Secretary...
...Wooden attachments similar to those placed in the rifle muzzles to hold the V. B. rifle grenades have also been obtained. It will now be possible to equip a whole platoon in the formation taught by the officers of the French Mission. The grenades used at Barre last summer, and the ordinary rifles will complete the armament...