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...ninety-nine applicants sixty-eight have been chosen by the Military Office to represent the University at the Fourth Officers' Training Camp. Bit by bit we are graduating men from the R. O. T. C. and sending them to the finishing school which opens the road to a commission in the National Army...
...people of America must put the idea of 'doing their bit' out of their minds at once, as England did after said experience with that catch phrase," said Captain Louis Keene, C. E. F., commandant of the Dartmouth Battalion, and author of the British war novel "Crumps," when interviewed by a CRIMSON reporter recently. "If the country relies upon each person doing his bit, we will lose the war. It is necessary for every man, woman and child in the Allied nations to do his and her utmost--and then some, if we are to be victorious...
...Cambridge after a few days absence, I was surprised to have my attention called to a communication in Saturday's CRIMSON which was signed with my name. As I see by his communication today, Mr. Tucker, whose name appeared with mine, is as innocent of any hand in that bit of mean personal animosity as I am. I should like to take the opportunity of congratulating the author of that brief paragraph--who appears to have been too yellow to sign his own name to it--on the success of his little hoax. But it might be well to remind...
...within the power of every man to help his country. Mere declarations of loyalty accomplish nothing; the body and soul must be enlisted to the cause. The time for contentment with "doing your bit" is over. The nation now demands your all. Where formerly some one activity, some little help was regarded enough, today we can be content with nothing less than the utmost from everyone. As a worthy Canadian has pointed out, the term "slacker" has taken on a new meaning. The slacker among us now is the man who, in the slightest way, withholds any bit of energy...
...deeds. If you ought to be in the army, get into it. If you ought to be here, make every minute count. In any case, be an American twenty-four hours of every day and learn that slackers are bred of the stuff which is satisfied with "doing its bit...