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Captain Amann emphasized the fact that it is essential to learn modern methods of warfare in order to avoid the mistakes that were made at the beginning of the war. There are changes in the art of combat every month requring new armaments and weapons and it is necessary to keep in touch with the changes as they occur...
...custom followed for several years of wearing blue coats and flannel trousers will be adhered to this year. Each dance will last for five minutes with an encore of three minutes, and cutting-in will be allowed only during an encore. In order to avoid confusion it is particularly requested that the Kirkland-street entrance of Memorial Hall be used by those arriving in carriages and that the Cambridge-street entrance be used by pedestrians. After 11 o'clock both doors will be open for those leaving in carriages. White carriage checks will indicate that carriages may be found...
...with those who perish, are left unscathed by war, will have the knowledge to elevate their spirits that they shunned in now way injury or destruction because of fear, or weakness soaring into dishonor. But what of those men who now fearfully and silently, are contemplating how they may avoid, by perjury or any means that will not harm their mortal lives, the imminent danger which goes with battle? If they are alive in twenty years, will they face the memory gladly of that which they might have done, and left undone? Will they find the life they have lived...
There have been coming reports, no doubt largely exaggerated for dramatic effect, of Americans leaving this country for Mexico, for Canada or Cuba, to avoid the military duty which rests on each citizen as the price of his citizenship. One might be easily tempted, with shallow wisdom, to demand that laws be enacted to prevent these men from seeking in flight the presumably safe but blastingly dishonorable course of the coward...
...that the Liberty Loan is fully launched, the question of individual responsibility confronts each one of us. The great financial and industrial organizations of the country have subscribed millions of dollars without hesitation, recognizing a duty which they would not avoid. But the extent of their support is limited. They have another obligation, quite as real, that they should keep the channels of business and banking open for the use of the nation...