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...furthermore unjust to make the inference that the recent reorganization of the Corps is due to their incompetence. As a matter of fact, the change is chiefly one of administrative detail,--an attempt to centralize functions which it had previously been necessary for three or four persons to perform. There is no intention of eliminating the Faculty from the instructing staff even though we have been so fortunate as to secure a number of National Guard officers to augment our teaching force...
...members of the detachment will act as instructors in the University July Camp and will possibly perform the same function at the June course at Plattsburg...
...same time, F. Parkman '19 was appointed to perform the duties of president of the Junior class at the Class Day ceremonies in the absence of C. Canfield '19, W. R. Odell '19 and R. E. Gross '19, respectively president, vice-president and secretary-treasurer of the class of 1919, all of whom have left College to enter the fourth officers' training camp...
...they were a year ago; they are taking more courses and military training, and are indulging in far more outside work. It is for this very reason, perhaps, that they found the war so convenient a means evading and half-heartedly accomplishing tasks which they are called upon to perform. "These are war-times, you know, and present demands make it impossible for me to do this," is the common attitude. The fallacy of lack of time has gained great headway among our student body and has come to permeate the daily experience...
...pawn for side-stepping work is something to which no one consciously stoops. The fact that these are exceptional times calls upon us to perform exceptional tasks. A man's accomplishments today should be limited only by the time at his disposal. Granted that men are doing more now than ever before, the fact still remains that a considerable part of each man's day is not utilized. The war demands economies of all kinds and that of time is not the least among them. Very few of us have reached a point where we no longer are able...