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...extended over one week only. This means that while they are in progress there will be little time for reviewing. Concentration on scholastic work during vacation is difficult at best, but this spring it is an opportunity which men who expect to be officers cannot afford to neglect. Dismissal from both the University and the Reserve Corps is too high a price to pay for eight days of thoughtless indifference to work...
...have no time to afford, as we thought to our discomforture we had time to afford in our Civil War, for evasion of contracts by manufacturers, for costly and inefficient methods of supply...
...eighty men have already joined. The period of enlistment after training is six years, a short time annually being given to practice. For those men who are physically unqualified for active military service because of minor defects, such as eyesight, the new Norton-Harjes and American Field ambulance units afford the quickest and most satisfactory means of offering their services to the country indirectly by helping in France, Enlistment is for terms of six months, with ten-day vacations, most of the expenses being paid...
...copies, fully one-half of which goes outside of the Freshman class, does it seem that the Red Book is "valuable" only to Freshmen? Then, too, is the average college student expected to give money for the various war reliefs? Is it not chiefly the older generation that can afford to and does supply most of the money for the war sufferers? Would it not seem a bit unusual if this so well established publication should be stopped at a time when this European conflict is probably in its last year? P. BATCHELDER...
...Graduate Track Committee. This committee, reorganized last spring, besides the chairman consists of C. C. Little '10, H. Jaques '11, W. A. Barron '14, R. C. Floyd '11, J. Greenough '15, E. A. Teschner '17, Theodore Clark '17 and Coach Donovan, ex-officio. It was organized to afford a means of graduate supervision of track athletics. It meets regularly weekly or bi-weekly from September until June. At its meetings the performance of individual runners is discussed and ways and means put into effect for bettering the same. Thus recently a series of talks by graduates based on actual racing...