Word: waiting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Seniors are reminded that the first application for Class Day tickets, open only to members of the Class of 1917, will close on May 12. Men are requested however not to wait until that date but to facilitate the work of the committee by applying immediately. At this application the following maximum number of tickets may be secured: two Sanders Theatre at 75 cents each, 12 Stadium at 50 cents each, 10 Yard at 20 cents each, and 10 Senior Spread at $2.50 each, Application blanks may now be secured at Leavitt and Peirce's, the Union...
There is no profit to a single man in waiting for some hoped-for opportunity which may never arise. If he waits, he had as well wait to the end of the war, when his nation will have attained victory or gone down to perdition without him. No man wants to be a procrastinator...
...account of the continued delay of the War Department in deciding whether Harvard will have a training camp it is no longer feasible for the eligible men in the R. O. T. C. to wait. These men want to obtain the best military instruction the country offers in order to fit themselves to be officers of the first army of five hundred thousand. The system of officers' training camps which have already been authorized will give this. Since it is doubtful whether a federal camp is to be established in Cambridge, all those...
...learn self-control, and not permit nervous excitement to distract him from his other work. When the proper moment comes, and not before, he will be asked to give his whole time to military preparation. Those who are not in the training corps will be wise to wait until they can discern the path of their greatest usefulness. That will not take very long; and it is far better to choose aright than to choose quickly. A. LAWRENCE LOWELL...
...Department fails at first to see the advisability of forming a school here, the greatest pressure ought to be used to convince it that most efficient results can be obtained with the training school established on the spot. Until this is brought about we can only wait and bend every personal effort towards making ourselves well-trained officers...