Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...This affair is taken advantage of by a considerable number of men each year, whether they are spreading elsewhere or not. Attendance in former years has varied from 100 to more than 200 persons, and despite a curtailment of the elaborateness of the function an equally large gathering is expected this season...
...entire proceeds from the affair will be donated to the second Red Cross Fund and consequently no war tax will be required on tickets
...present camp. First there were no application blanks, then the applications were closed and reopened in the space of four days, then it was decided that early examinations were necessary and that no one could go to Plattsburg without taking these early examinations, and for a time the affair was thought settled. Now the whole question has been reopened, owing to the lassitude of some colleges in sending their men, and at the last minute it will be necessary to give still another set of special finals...
Throughout the whole affair, the sufferers have been Faculty, and they have acted most generously. It is hard enough for them to arrange for one set of special examinations, without having suddenly thrust upon their shoulders the bothersome necessity of making out still more sets of papers and having a new collection of blue books piled before them. It is greatly to their credit that they have realized the value of the June Camp and have given every man who hopes to go a fair chance to complete his academic work...
When the muddle over the aircraft situation gets so bad that there are threats and charges of criminal prosecution, it is time that the matter be taken hold of with a firm hand. Like many other of our war projects, the whole affair is surrounded with a haze of conjecture and uncertainty, but the mists have been cleared away sufficiently to reveal corruption and downright fraud of the worst order. The reports of Mr. Borglum, the special commissioner, and of the Aeronautical Association of America, when added to the recent admission that building was practically at a standstill, leave these...