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...opportunity for morning setting-up drill next week under the direction of Captain Kendall is very fortunate for members of the R. O. T. C. and particularly for those taking the special examinations. The irregular hours of these tests and the added work they will require will make it difficult to find time for one's usual amount of exercise. Half an hour of setting-up drill under the supervision of an expert officer will more than make up for this lack...
...certain place at, say a two-minute interval, you can be perfectly sure that they will come regularly as clockwork. And once the interval is broken the firing does not start again. In the Ambulance we used to work on this basis and with almost perfect security. The irregular, apparently haphazard firing of the French always impressed us as likely to be much more disconcerting to the people at the other...
...write; they are civilized, intelligent, sensitive, literary--but they haven't very much to say for themselves. The poets, particularly fail to express anything vital or even individual. They write pretty fair verse in a good many different forms. Sonnets predominate, but there are specimens of ballade, epigram, stanzas, irregular rhyme and blank verse. There is the usual meteorological trend--snow, wind, waves, sunset and allied phenomena--but on the whole the range is reasonably wide and most of the authors are trying honestly enough to express what they themselves have felt and seen. There is no conscious imitation...
...different moods the idea of death. Mr. Norris writes "Lines" of epigrammatic brevity and point. "From an Office Window at night" is Mr. Allinson's expression of revolt on the part of the city worker whose imagination carries him far away. Mr. Paulding's verse is tense and irregular; unlike many contemporary writers of tense and irregular verse, he is wise enough not to expand his theme unduly...
...student who is irregular in attendance or remiss in his work in the course thereby forfeits his right to take a written examination...