Word: uniformed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This whole haphazard business must stop now. A few more such occurrences will show us unworthy of the Government's patronage, for we do not want to have the R. O. T. C. merely a motley array of undergraduates in uniform. It is recognized as a military organization and that it must remain. Discipline among friends is a difficult proposition; there is a constant temptation to visit the top-sergeant tell him a sad story about how much work you had, and then remind him of what good friends you two have always been. This is the easiest...
Such a dance has been held at Princeton already, and was successful. In speaking of the Princeton dance Dean McClenahan said: "It was attended by a large number of undergraduates and former students in uniform...
...Brandegee has advocated a dance that coincided with "the spirit of the times," and doing away with all undue extravagance. He suggested, furthermore, that it assume the air of a military ball, with the students in uniform and Allied flags as decorations...
...favorable. From the point of view of an officer of the college, I see no objection to the dance, provided it is carried out in consonance with the spirit of the times. It should, in my judgement, have the air of a military ball--students in the uniform of their organizations--and college decorations should give way to the flags of the Allies. Above all the ball should be conducted in as simple a manner as possible and with the least expense...
...comes the reckoning. Morcover, we have another month before Christmas, and a month is a long stretch of time, especially when it happens to be December. Added to that it is annoying and highly humiliating to constantly meet privates from one's company of last summer now wearing the uniform of a captain. After telling a man to cover in file for four long months it is insufferable to find him a leader of men, while you still shrick "Follow me" to a motley array on the banks of the River Charles. All of which causes gloom...