Word: take
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...November 12, it was voted not to charge a "graduation fee" of twenty dollars to men who graduate in 1918 and go into active service prior to Commencement. This action will affect especially men who are planning to enter the Third Series of Officers' Training Camps and expect to take the special set of mid-year examinations which will be held in December and January...
...weeks that the Yale freshmen were our superiors. We had been laughing up our sleeves at them during these same two weeks. These athletic Elijahs foretell correctly with such infrequency that we scarcely regret their success this year, for if they were never right we should cease to take them even half seriously. We do regret, however, that their success was realized through the efforts of a certain educational institution which is located at New Haven. If there is any rival in the world whom Harvard loves to beat, it is Yale. Up to last fall that love had been...
...Yale Freshman football team has been developed under unusual conditions this season. Because of the amount of time spent in military and naval courses which each player is required to take in order to be eligible for the team, only two whole afternoons each week have been given to the coaches...
...telephone, wireless, etc. To win a battle in trench warfare the artillery must co-operate with the infantry, and every separate unit must co-operate with all the other units on the whole line. You can see the stupendous task this is, and the amount of practice it will take to accomplish it. Naturally our division is the chopping-block for all the other divisions. All experiments are tried on us; the failures are spared to the other divisions. But there can be no kick coming from us, for we learn both by successes and failures...
...home influence, the one place of rest, the one amusement resort that the Army and Navy have. It is the soldier's oasis in the midst of the horrors of battle. The French and the Italians want the American Y. M. C. A. to take up its work behind their lines and it has promised to comply. The Russians need our assistance in the form of both huts and cantonments. Their Army is in many places demoralized: the poison of German propaganda is having its dire effect of which the antidote is work such as Dr. Mott discribed. The Russian...