Word: takings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There will be a special Good Friday service in Appleton Chapel this morning, conducted by the Reverend John Kelman, D.D., minister of St. George's Presbyterian Church, Edinburgh. The service will take the place of the regular morning prayers, beginning at the customary time of 8.45 and closing promptly at 9. It will be preceded at 8.30 by a 15-minute organ recital by Dr. Davison 06 at which selections from Bach and Brahms will be rendered...
...trained officers. All the present naval appropriations will expire on the 30th of June, and unless Congress is called in special session before then, there will be no funds with which to operate the navy. For this reason, we have to be extremely careful in all expenditures, and can take no steps toward the establishment of naval units or the increase of the reserve this spring, but plans for the organization of the college units should be ready by next fall...
Tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock the University nine will meet the Springfield Y. M. C. A. at Soldiers Field in the contest which was postponed from Wednesday because of the cold and rainy weather. This game will take the place of the one with Havana for tomorrow which had to be cancelled because the Cubans were unable to obtain permission from Washington to enter this country...
...news that twenty-nine percent of all eligible undergraduates are taking part in one or another of the four major sports this spring is at least worthy of comment. It will come as a decided surprise to many of the older graduates who in pre-war days were wont to compare eleven men on the football team to the whole seething cheering-sections which gave them lusty support. "Why is there not a chance on some team or crew for every man who wants to take part in a college sport?" these graduates asked. Generally there was an answer...
...hearing for his views, that he has fulfilled his obligations in trying to make the present machinery of the University work successfully. He cannot in justice deny that the responsibility of whether that machinery has worked well or ill rests largely with the attitude he has taken. Take the case of concentration and distribution, which is such a bugbear at present. How many have given serious study and thought to the subject, for say fifteen minutes at a time? Or how many who have disliked to exercise their minds to that extent have talked to their Faculty Adviser upon...