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...only a small number from the Sophomore class reported yesterday as candidates for second assistant crew manager, a second call is issued for today. As no experience is necessary and as this is the only major sport managership competition commencing in the fall, a considerable number of Sophomores should respond. All candidates are to report this afternoon at 3.30 at the Newell Boathouse...
...Hendrson's "The Twllight Mourner," on rural evening and the whip-poor-will; Mr. R. S. Mitchell's "Threnody," a fresh impression of love in Aegean landscapes; and Mr. E. Whittlesey's "Along the Wall," vague but rather pretty. Mr. R. G. Hillyer's "The Voice to Respond" begins with a large idea, which becomes smaller as it becomes too subjective. His lines have a strikingly Swinburnian swing. Mr. R. Littell's "Poet Telegraphs" is so vague as to be positively obscure...
Most men are willing to help a good cause and when a general, official appeal for aid is made, as on the University tag day, they respond generously. But they cannot be expected to submit very cheerfully to a perpetual campaign of flagging, tagging and sand bagging by persistent females...
...other powers were each estimated at over a million, the United States has no reserves whatever. The present task of Lord Kitchener bespeaks the effect of Great Britain's policy. There is a general confidence in our volunteer system. Experience has shown that many hundreds of thousands would readily respond to a call, and this mere statement of the numbers available is apt to produce a false feeling of security. General Leonard Wood, M.D. '84, has declared that 300,000 men would be necessary at the outset of an attack on this country; the total available mobile force...
...Parlor of Phillips Brooks House this afternoon from 4 until 6 o'clock. All members of the University are invited to attend. Since the purpose of these Teas is to offer students an opportunity to meet the professors and their wives, it is hoped that many will respond to the invitation...