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...Congress, advocating that a state of war with Germany be declared. Congress will necessarily support the President and pass Congressman Flood's resolution, and by this action it will be fulfilling the ardent desire of every patriotic citizen. After the formal declaration will come the call for five hundred thousand volunteers, additional recruits for the navy, and then the marshalling of the nation's resources for the successful combat against the Hohenzollern government of Germany...
...call for five hundred thousand volunteers will go out in the next few days. The Harvard men in the R. O. T. C. will be the future officers of this new army. For the last month these men have given the required time to the prescribed training, but now the decision has finally been made that we have been waiting for. The result must be an immediate increase in the hours of training. Every man wants to be an officer as soon as possible, as every officer will be needed. The quickest progress can only be made by these future...
...dominant feature of their curricula, will furnish officers to instruct raw recruits; and the women's colleges stand ready to carry out the Red Cross work. And, finally, if the United States needs officers, fighters, aviators, surgeons, ambulance drivers, engineers, signal corps experts, or sailors, a hundred thousand college men offer the best that is in them...
...annual report of the University Library indicates rapid growth under increasing difficulties. More than forty thousand volumes have been added to its shelves, swelling the total to nearly two million and placing it among the greatest collections of books in the world. Yet with this encouraging progress there has not come the corresponding increase of dependable resources which are necessary in carrying forward the work from year to year...
...that there shall be no intoxicating liquors served at the class banquet in June or at future class reunions. At Syracuse the students in the department of agriculture have placed a ban on smoking at the annual school banquet to be held shortly after Easter. And Billy Sunday a thousand miles away! --Boston Transcript...