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...slip by, unsung, into the tumbled yesterdays of 'a little while ago.' I was in tremendous luck to be able to 'graft' my way into this section on the eve of its first real action--and once the action got started it seemed self-perpetuating. I have been an 'extra-man'--so my chance to see things has been excellent. 'Seeing' balls one all up, too. Though in a way also it makes everything--that is, just living--seem simpler and untroubled by all the old petty details. It is torture to see all this magnificent energy and sacrifice going...
...days are already appreciably longer. The extra hour of daylight becomes a factor...
Standish and Smith Halls played a 0-0 tie in the third match of the interdormitory series yesterday afternoon. After three extra periods the game had to be stopped on account of darkness...
...down of courses on Mondays. All the College buildings which are being made use of by different branches of the Government service and all the dormitories would have to be heated as usual, so that only a few buildings such as Sever and Emerson Halls could be closed. The extra amount of fuel needed to heat these buildings would therefore be negligible...
...effect of the war is certain to be of interest to all alumni of the Institute of Technology and to young men who are willing to do an extra amount of work in order to get through their course the sooner. In brief, the demand for technical men is so great that the Institute is planning not only to run all summer for the upper classes, but to take in a brand new freshman class in February made up of "picked men, gluttons for punishment," as one of the officials puts it, who, by October, will have completed their regular...