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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Business has its credit system. So has life. If we stopped to verify the word of every one with whom we were obliged to deal in the course of the day, human affairs would be paralyzed. The only way the world can go on is on the assumption that people around us are telling the truth. And it is because of the hideous inconvenience and uncertainty he occasions that the whole world detests a liar...
Lieutenant Edward H. Perry '09, of the Sixth Regiment of Regular Engineers, U. S. A., word has just been received, was killed in the recent action at Picardy. No particulars as to how he met his death are known. Lieutenant Perry attended the officers' training school at Plattsburg which was held last spring...
Lieutenant Arthur B. Warren '15 died in France last week from scarlet fever contracted during service in the front line trenches, according to word received from Washington. Last spring Lieutenant Warren received the degree of A.M. at the University and after training in the R. O. T. C., was commissioned a second lieutenant at the first Officers' Training Camp at Plattsburg...
...Word has also been received that Lieutenant Francis P. Magoun '16 has been wounded flying on the western front. Last fall he was commissioned second lieutenant in the British Royal Flying Corps, as a result of his unusual skill and daring while fighting in the scouts' division of the flying corps. On December 6, 1917, he brought down a German aviator who had previously overcome 16 Allied planes...
...interesting to note how the term 'slacker', which you are now using over here in its earliest sense, has spread to include different classes of men who, though they may be in the service, are not doing their utmost toward winning the war. First the word slacker meant the man who dodged the enlistment office and the draft; then it was applied to those who secured soft berths in the service, such as patrol-boat jobs or office work, when they were well fitted for active service in the line; and now those who have had college training...