Word: usefulness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...permanent use of the Arena for practice has been secured on Monday and Friday afternoons at 5 o'clock, and if the circumstances warrant it, the informals will play on these days until the closing of the Arena in March. The outside games will probably come on some other day. Although none have been arranged definitely, negotiations are under way with several service teams...
...brought to the fore. It is now easy to conceive what the worth of a general taking up of the sport throughout the country would be. It would mean scores of expert shots just so much further along in their training for combat. Though rifle teams and gun clubs use small calibre weapons, it is with these that the soldier is given his first and fundamental training, "gallery practice." Expertness with a sub-calibre rifle on a college rifle team would put a man through this training even before he had entered actual military life...
...most profitable way of employing the coupon is undoubtedly to use it for the purchase of war savings stamps, which bear 4 per cent, interest compounded quarterly, and Liberty dividends so invested offer the best, most direct and most immediate aid to Uncle Sam, who pays them. --New York...
...unusual number of students in various departments of the college who are anxious to earn money just now, and the earning is never better that it is during the holiday season. In the second place, an extension of the vacation will mean for Tufts considerable economies in its use of fuel for heating, despite the fact that special provision will be made to continue uninterrupted the work of those students of drafts age who are now taking special intensive course to prepare themselves for service in one or another branch of the military establishment...
...University informal hockey team will begin its season next week when candidates will be called out at the Boston Arena for Monday afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. he use of the Arena has been secured permanently for Mondays and Fridays throughout the winter, and practice will be held regularly on these days, No coach has been secured as yet, and R. E. Gross '19, who is in charge of the Freshmen, will probably supervise the work on the first day. Although no games so far have been arranged, negotiations are under way for matches with several service teams...