Word: us
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...tour is a matter for congratulation and there will be many who will wish to see it, partly for the memories it will revive and partly for the opportunity to see just what sort of an evening's entertainment "Gammer" will provide--she who lost her needle and made us laugh in spite of ourselves even while we were studying her quaint English and her charming verse text...
...lamentable ignorance of this necessary minimum has been generally interpreted as indicating that our college students do not read the war news, and they have been scolded in many a chapel talk and editorial for neglect of the papers. To us, the results of this quiz seem to show that they are guilty of something far less excusable. We fear that they have been reading the war news, but have made no effort to understand it. Such diligence and complete absorption in the required studies as to prevent a student from looking at a daily, or even a weekly, would...
...editorial which aims briskly to dispose of our fourth year of college is scarcely to be taken seriously. With our modern interest in graduate school specialization, many do "get through" in three years, it is true, but unless the majority of us have some such real inducement, we will all doubtless prefer to take our culture in the "good oldfashioned way." The four-year course may be largely sedentary, but, to use the words of Voltaire...
...mercantile marine, the great majority must come from the ranks of civilians who are engaged in other than maritime pursuits. The course of training will be given on board reserve battleships of the fleet. These ships in reserve have reduced Navy complements on board and this will enable us to take about 500 civilians on each ship. The ships will start from various points along the Atlantic coast--Boston, Newport, New York, Philadelphia, Norfolk, and Charleston. Practically any person in good physical health and between the ages of 19 and 45 can enroll, and the cost of the cruise...
...compliance with War Department Orders, Captain Schindel of the General Staff, U.S.A., will inspect the Regiment, Sunday, May 21, 1916. All men should attend, since on the showing made depends as to whether we will have a U. S. Army officer detailed with us next year, under the sanction of the War Department...