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...player is only eligible as an undergraduate, except that he may play in the Intercollegiate Tournament the summer after graduation. A graduate of one college cannot represent another, even though he becomes an undergraduate at another college...
Drills are held weekly at the armory on Irvington street, Boston, except in August and September, and instruction is given in infantry as well as in the artillery tactics, the manual of arms, the use of the magazine rifle and revolver, and the setting-up drill as practiced in the regular army. During the spring summer and fall there are facilities for target shooting at the range with small arms...
...also. In the second place, the utterances themselves cannot but show what more or less esteemed Americans value for philosophical purposes. The list of topics is short. When one has named, "for God, for Country, and for Yale" there is little to add to this greatest of anti-climaxes, except perhaps "for virtue". Baccalaureat speakers are at their best in linking mid-Victorian triteness with modern Babbitry, in combining Puritanical platitudes with the poverty of provincialism...
...everything that you could possibly want in a spring break destination, except the thing that mattered most—other college kids. The throngs of intoxicated American college kids that annually crowd the beaches and fill the clubs were no more. All that was left were small families hanging out by the pool and fat guys from Yonkers playing bocce ball...
...that big thinking, al-Qaeda was an inconvenience at best. Strategy so overwhelmed tactical thinking in the Bush Administration that practicalities of any sort--except the military details of an Iraq invasion--were bumped down the ladder to deputies. The terrorist threats that were setting George Tenet's and Dick Clarke's hair on fire in early 2001 took a backseat to "brilliant" strategic notions like responding to the Cole by "doing something about" Saddam Hussein. Even the Aug. 6 memo to the President from the CIA, which was titled "Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in U.S.," was seen...