Word: welling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...evil and lays them bare, that its citizens may judge their own worth. Our country has been no exception to the rule. Since the Declaration of War a year ago, the United States has undergone the acid test. And how has she stood it? Truthfully, we may answer: well. Our youths have flocked from every state, willing, at least in spirit; our efforts to make up for years of unpreparedness have been honest, though sometimes ineffectual; and, taken all in all, our national spirit has been praiseworthy. It has shown vigor and earnestness but unhappily only too often a complete...
With all the bride's relatives weeping over his anticipated demise, it is wonderful that the bridegroom at the war wedding bears up as well as he does. Perhaps he is upheld by the knowledge that the bridegroom is now, as never before, the centre of attention. Where once they whispered, "No matter if he does look inane; every one will be staring at the bride," they say today, "Who would have supposed Willie would turn out to be so handsome in his new uniform?" Such a reversal of roles is worthy of an article by Mr. Shonts...
...large expenditure necessary for the project is considered justifiable because it is felt that a school so well established as that at the University should be kept intact. All the available University buildings have already been taken over by the Radio School, but the space occupied is altogether inadequate for the needs...
...that has marked the military courses during the winter. Plans for the work to be undertaken by the University corps after the spring recess were announced by the Headquarters Office yesterday. The dates upon which the different battalions will go to Wakefield for range practice were made known, as well as a general schedule of the practical training to be done regularly by the entire regiment. Morning drill will be continued by companies for at least one hour a week and will, for the first part of the term, be concerned chiefly with bayonet practice and subcalibre gallery work...
There is a remedy for this state of affairs which has already been inaugurated in some universities and which American colleges might well consider. There exists the urgent need of following Columbia and Technology in an adoption of a program of training which would permit students to be active in academic study throughout the year. The all-year college term has worked well in Europe and is now needed in America. The summer vacation must not remain an obstacle to those who desire no delay. Of the many young men who no doubt will soon enter the national service...