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Give them "hayseed," chaff from the barn floor, crumbs, scraps of meats, bones, and suet, anything eatable, and they will repay you a thousand fold by their work in the garden and the orchard...
...University War Records' Office, recently established by the Alumni Bulletin in the Union, has, to date, received reports from between five and six thousand graduates and undergraduates now in war service. In the compilation of the list of alumni and students of the University who are now engaged in the service of the Government, the War Records' Office has relied solely on voluntary statements from the men now in the army or navy. It would be impossible for the office to comb the records of the million or more men now in the military and naval forces in order...
...University's subscription to the Y. M. C. A. Red Triangle Fund was a topic of conversation throughout the country. That Harvard with so small a number of students could pledge over fifty thousand dollars to this work was proof of the splendid spirit of those few men who had to stay at home. But the pledging is very much less than half the tale. The question of collection is quite imminent. That part of the story seems to be progressing with difficulty. It is not to be doubted that those who have pledged will eventually make good their promise...
...hear it on all sides and you can see that the students want it by reading their college papers. Everybody should be out playing, building up his body. We shouldn't spend our time developing a man to jump six feet when we have a thousand men who can't jump four feet. One thousand men who can jump four feet are worth a dozen men who can jump six feet today. What good is you man if he can't get out of a trench by himself, and every man must be able to do that. We have...
...last night the reports of the University Red Cross Committee showed that almost one thousand members of the University already have the right to wear the celluloid button which designates its owner as a member of the greatest organization in the country. The remaining thousand have only until this evening to do their small part towards a great cause--a cause which is so big that it can make the best possible use of the smallest contribution. One dollar is a small initiation fee for such a society; even with war taxes on railroad fares and Pullman seats...