Word: true
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...grievance of American young men that they are considered infants by their elders until they have passed middle age is altogether too well founded. A young man's ability is a difficult thing to make recognized per se. This is especially true in so conservative a business as our national government, where we can point to few men of tender years holding positions of responsibility. We have not had too many William Pitts or Lord John Russells. An exception to this rule, however, is our Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04, who will speak on the Navy...
Target practice, too, combines sport with experience, although the latter is its best feature. Sub-calibre rifles and short ranges cannot make anyone an expert, but they develop a true eye, a steady hand and a reliable trigger-squeeze. Shooting Boches requires more skill than can be acquired on Soldiers Field, yet beginners may learn the rudiments, and experienced marksmen may improve their aim. The student who practises with rifle or bayonet furthers his own military prospects, and, at the same time, obtains exercise and recreation...
...porkless day throughout the Bay State, so says the Massachusets Committee of Safety. This law has, however, a loophole, for the Committee has decided to exempt from this ruling the minute bit of pork which accompanies the Boston bean to the dinner table of every true Bostonian. It was, indeed, a good thing that this rider was attached, for the bean is sacred in our midst, and what the salt is to the egg or the yeast to the bread, the pork is to the bean. Whether the tinge of pork in reality adds to the luscious flavor...
...have just been sent abroad by the Athletic Association for our troops when resting from military work. The English soldiers have been known to go into action kicking a soccer ball; Pershing may now desire to follow their example. The lieutenants may soon be equipped with footballs and in true Mahan style rush over the top, followed by their platoons. War is a constantly changing game and such a formation might terrorize the most terrible Touton. A little scrimmage in No Man's Land between barrages would also serve as a diversion to the worn-out doughboy...
Three-score pages and ten of the December Advocate are abroad in our midst. True, it opens with a reprint of "France," by John Macy '99, and for the sake of that "France" we could endure much. If you call a dog the Harvard Advocate, undergraduates will be inclined to love it; but unless the standards of the present Advocate not only improve but suffer a sea-change, even the faithful will fall off from...