Word: offing
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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For the first two hundred and fifty years of the life of the College, it never occurred to those responsible for its administration that the students should not be obliged to attend public services of worship on Sundays and weekdays. Even the custom of two services on each weekday does...
It can never be sufficiently emphasized that it was the love of religion and a sense of its importance in the life of youth which led to this change, which then seemed revolutionary. It was felt that if the services of religion maintained by the University were to be a...
The administration of the new order of things was committed to a resident professor and a board of five preachers to the University, the members of the board being elected annually. The board is composed of representatives of different denominations who reside in the University for periods of two weeks...
Universal military training as an important question is a matter of past history; what little enthusiasm for it remained after the war was dampened by the emphatic refusal of the country even to consider it. Voluntary military training, however, is still a matter of interest. A movement has originated in...
In detail the plan calls for camps, lasting four or five weeks in June and July, located if possible at the former training centers in nine army corps areas, which like Camp Devens are at the present moment lying almost deserted. Men under twenty are especially desired but ex-Plattsburgers...