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Coach Duffy considers that the battery candidates have been coming along in good shape. He feels that so much progress has been made by these men that a firm foundation has been laid for a correspondingly rapid and thorough development of the other positions both infield and outfield...
Those students whose personal experience with life in the University includes war and even pre-war times are interested observers of the rapid transformation which is bringing us back to the normal order of what the outside world loves to term "college life." The signing of the armistice last November marked a very low point in the tide of college activities beyond the regular courses. At that time practically every activity which in some degree did not spring from military courses was either non-existent or well along the road to become so. The ink was searcely...
...army of the unemployed is daily assuming more threatening proportions in the United States. While Congress is groping with conservative haste among a multitude of bills designed to relieve the situation, the curtailment of war industries and the rapid discharge of soldiers is adding thousands each week to the already over-supplied labor market. When we add to these two potent sources of unemployed the present inevitable halt in the industrial machinery while it is changing from war to peace operation, the problems of relief become both grave and complex in the extreme...
Colonel Goetz graduated from West Point in 1909. He was made a first lieutenant in 1916 and a captain in May, 1917. Then he received a rapid series of promotions, being commissioned major in June, 1918, lieutenant-colonel in August, and colonel in October, 1918. After his graduation from West Point Colonel Goetz was stationed principally in the west, and from 1912 to 1917 he served in Honolulu and Panama. Since the beginning of the war he has been engaged in military instruction duty, and was last assigned to Camp Jackson, S. C. His home is in Cape Girardeau, Missouri...
...hold", and it aims to dull the conscience into accepting the kind of listless existence it signifies. The man who says he is "getting by" is merely drifting with the current into the sea of oblivion. When the fighting spirit of races as well as of individuals runs low rapid degeneration inevitably follows. And when high resolve and constant initiative relax their powers, then the loser is morally poor indeed; for he has dropped out of the race in life and but impedes the way for those behind. If a student is merely "getting by" he is a liability...