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...opportunities never before offered the youth of this country. The civilian training camp, requiring a month's time for four years during vacation, the R. O. T. C. and the National Guard, outside of service in the regular army,--all of these opportunities are open to college men. This soft, mushy propaganda, rampant through the country today and especially through New England, of peace at any price, peace with dishonor, assumes that there has been a fundamental change in human nature. It concerns me in that it is making an impression on many earnest, serious minds, especially on the minds...
Unless there is a change in the weather conditions which will make the ground too soft for use, the spring football season at the University will begin this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock when the squad will report at Soldiers Field for its first practice. At the meeting which was held last Friday in the Varsity Club about 120 men reported, but it is probable that, because of the large number engaged in other spring sports, only about 55 will...
ALASKA: Test oil wells are being bored. From one of them a column of soft blue clay flows, filling the six-inch pipe and rising to a height of five feet before tipping over. The rate of the clay flow varies with atmospheric pressure...
Here is what The Daily News (New York) says about royalty: "Holding down a job as a king or a royal prince nowadays is pretty soft. They don't have to work at it-the lucky stiffs...
...another is a German noble, his father is an extreme Tory M. P., who favors reprisals in Ireland, his father-in-law is an Earl perched on a dizzy pinnacle of aristocracy, his brother, a Black and Tan, is shot by a sniper. Furthermore, Bertram Pollard has an uncommonly soft heart. He can no more hate and despise the " mob" with whom he fought in France than he can turn his back on his Tory connections. So he goes striding disconsolately down the middle of the road, trying to be tolerant, taking no sides, finding it "all very difficult...