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Speaking on the relation of the student body to the war Vice-President Marshall said: "My views are quite clear upon this subject. I was heartily in favor of Conscription, in order to enable the Government to select those persons who could best be spared from civil life and who could best discharge military duty. I still believe in the principle...
...main feature of the jubilee, the interdormitory song contest, will commence at 7.30 o'clock and continue for about an hour. Each chorus will sing one college song and one recent popular song, beside the football songs which will give the judges a basis on which to select the best chorus. After the winning singers have been named, their leader will be presented with the cup and baton and will conduct the singing of the three choruses together. The dance of the evening will begin about 8.30 o'clock and end promptly at 12.30. Two orchestras under Bert Lowe...
...know that it is hard to stay at work here. It is harder to lie down under fire than charge at a greater risk. But if it is one's duty it must be done, and the soldier does not select his duty. He does what is considered best for the contingent as a whole. A. LAWRENCE LOWELL
...with the weight of the advice of the biggest men in the country against us, it would be futile to persist. As President Lowell says, we are soldiers, "and the soldier does not select his duty...
...proud of this registration, reflecting that after offering to the service of the country substantially every able-bodied man in the School, maintaining entrance requirements intact and rejecting for deficiency in scholarship the normal percentage of those examined last year, the School is still going forward with a select student body amply sufficient to maintain its best traditions...