Word: tenths
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...tenth consecutive season a winter class in general athletics for Freshmen will be organized during the next few days. The class is intended primarily for men who are not candidates for any of the organized teams, and it therefore aims to give general physical training rather than proficiency in any particular branch of sport. No member of 1921, however, is debarred from joining the class. Although there is no expense attached to membership in this voluntary organization, the best coaching is afforded the members...
...Albert Parker Fitch '00, formerly president of the Andover Theological Seminary at the University, and now a professor at Amherst College, will be the speaker before the Freshmen in Smith Halls Common Room Monday night at 7 o'clock. Dr. Fitch will be the tenth in the series of men who have addressed the entering class at these regular Monday evening meetings...
Major Beith has had many experiences in the war and has watched its progress carefully since the beginning. In the summer of 1914 he enlisted in the Tenth Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, and spent six months of that fall and winter training at Aldershot, England. Soon afterwards, his regiment was sent to France, where they went into action among "the first hundred thousand...
...with his recent visit to the trenches. He is well qualified to speak in this regard, having served himself under Kitchener. He enlisted soon after the beginning of the war, and spent six months of the fall and winter of 1914-15 in training at Aldershot, England, in the Tenth Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. After training for six months, the regiment was sent to France and went into action among the "first hundred thousand." While at the front his ability and courage won him promotion to a captaincy, the commission he now holds...
...American public is not responding to the Second Liberty Loan to the extent asked by the Government. Of the sum of five billion dollars called for, only one-tenth has been subscribed in half the time allotted. Five billion seems a tremendous sum until we remember that only last February, England, with a population and a national wealth less than one half our own, and weakened by two and a half years of war, cheerfully subscribed to an even greater sum. The average American has not yet reached that point of patriotism where he will invest all his savings...