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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...honest endeavor at a fair administration. Appointments of men of the opposite party may be a spectacular appeal to the electorate. Fairmindedness, however, demands recognition for a policy which lays partisanship aside and which substitutes a real consideration for the needs and obligations of the time. Let us hope that the appointment of so able a man as Mr. Hughes will be but the forerunner of official recognition of many other national leaders who heretofore have remained in civil life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLITICS AND THE WAR | 5/17/1918 | See Source »

...called upon to perform. "These are war-times, you know, and present demands make it impossible for me to do this," is the common attitude. The fallacy of lack of time has gained great headway among our student body and has come to permeate the daily experience of us...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ECONOMY OF TIME | 5/17/1918 | See Source »

...time when the undergraduates are beginning to worry over the problem of the coming summer and when most of us are troubled as to how we can best train ourselves for future commissions it is well worth while to look over the offer of our own R. O. T. C. camp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A 1918 BARRE | 5/15/1918 | See Source »

...camp will not equal last year's, provided that the Military Science men of this University enrol. They will be the "brains and spinal cord" of the regiment without them discipline and efficient instruction will be impossible. Until we can become officers there is no better task open to us than to teach others what we have learned and thus start them on the road to commissions. The preparatory schools of New England will flock to this camp; it is up to every one of us to do our part in teaching them the few fundamentals which they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A 1918 BARRE | 5/15/1918 | See Source »

...Orals are one of our few traditions; what the fence is to Yale, the Orals are to us, and both are equally hard to get through. Tomorrow the ceremony begins; one by one we file in, take our guess, and leave. The Orals differ from other examinations in they are the only tests for which one cannot prepare. They are merely a matter of imagination, sang-froid and volubility, or what the ball player calls speed, and accuracy of control. Like the same sport, three misses and the candidate is "out" for the rest of the year. We advise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAST CALL FOR ORALS | 5/15/1918 | See Source »

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