Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This is excellent. All the argument is for athletic competitions among the colleges at this war era. There is no reason in the world why the colleges cannot do their fitted part in the great contest and have athletics at the same time. In fact, the one will be better for the other...
...hope that the silly pretense of "informality" will be dropped, and that the "Big Three" will honestly and courageously take their chances with the other colleges that are also doing fully as much in the war, according to numbers, as they are. --Boston Herald
...previous years the Register has usually appeared during the first week in December, but on account of a late start in the fall and the time required in compiling the undergraduate war record list, the publication this year has been considerably delayed. Also the aim of the Register Board this year has been for accuracy throughout, and an earlier publication of the book has been sacrificed to this end. All information is correct up to November...
...names of those who received scholarships for their work last year are announced this morning. A decrease in the number of recipients from 1915-1916 is noticeable, but not as large as might have resulted from the disturbing conditions. War or the immediate prospect of it kept many students from devoting all their energy to securing high grades. In spite of the imminent prospect of entering the conflict and the shortened final term, the standard has not materially fallen. The scholarships, in fact, are all the more valuable, in that they were won under distracting circumstances...
...present confusion. Instead of allowing coal to become mixed up with railroads and the manufacture of necessary articles to be checked thereby, this board will see to it that industry works in harmony with transportation. Even though a regulator may have managed very efficiently some branch of our war activities, yet we cannot with any reason expect him also to have adjusted this to the plans of all the other controllers. That is a task which requires a supreme council. Only by establishing one can we obtain that unity of effort which at present is lacking...