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Registration in two more departments of Boston University took place today, the School of Law and the School of Theology. At present the indications point to a normal entering class in the Law School, though a decrease is expected in the upper classes. Dean Birney of the Theological School expects the enrolment to be nearly forty per cent, less than last year, as many who would have attended the school in normal times have entered Government service or are engaged in Y. M. C. A. work...
Soldiers Field took on a more normal fall aspect yesterday when 63 members of 1921 reported to Coach D. J. Wallace '16 for Freshman football practice. The men were divided into small squads and drilled in the rudiments of the game, W. Rollins '16, W. R. Snow '18, V. F. Likins '18, G. D. Flynn '19, and F. C. Church '20 volunteering in the coaching of the candidates. The candidates were drilled chiefly in falling on and running with the ball, Coach Wallace giving the men over an hour's work for the first day of practice...
Contrary to the sybilline warnings of hopeful pessimists, the First Battalion returned from the firing line with no casualties. In so far as the top sergeants could check up, the companies were in possession of the normal number of ears and digits, manual and pedal. In spite of their being armed--perhaps because of it--with rifles which the instructors graphically said were made to shoot around corners, the men made decently presentable scores. If the targets had been a regiment of Prussians, it is to be presumed that such shooting would have been at least sufficient to knock...
...influence of any great upheaval of the normal round of life is inspiring or depressing according to the age of men. The more stable has a man's mode of living become, the more he fears to see that mode thrown out of use, usurped by newer events. So at the outbreak of war on old men falls the horror of war, on young men the need of war, and on younger men the excitement...
There is no reason why men should enter into the Class Day "celebration" with anything less than the normal spirit of the day. There is great reason why they should make it an occasion un-shadowed by gloomy references to the work which tomorrow they will...