Word: actions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...however, is informal and there are no regular hours. The Regents have recently authorized a unit of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps under General Order 49. All that is now wanting is arrangements for instructors, etc., by the War Department. It is hoped that Washington will take all necessary action for the establishment of the unit soon. It will be modelled on the Harvard plan and a much larger number are expected to enter it than are drilling...
Columbia was one of the first universities to make the final decision. Among the important events cancelled by this action was the annual Poughkeepsie regatta which was called off after a telegraphic vote by the Intercollegiate Rowing Association. Invitations had been issued to Princeton, Syracuse, California and Wisconsin to compete with the charter members of the association. Columbia, Cornell and Pennsylvania; but the members of the Columbia crew were all enrolled in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps at that university...
...abandonment of Yale athletics was automatic through the recent action of the athletic committee, which provided that if a war resolution were adopted prior to April 7, all athletic contests should cease on that date. Likewise, at a recent meeting in New York City of the representatives of various colleges at the invitation of the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton and Cornell made it known that their athletic activities were...
Michigan, St. Louis University and other institutions in the Middle and Far West, have followed the same course, and all the athletic events scheduled by the universities of the Pacific Coast have been declared off, through the action of Congress and the President...
...more sympathetic than we with the ultimate aim for which we enter the struggle, namely, the triumph of democracy over autocracy and the spirit which makes war necessary. It has been in the past a question of how best to realize this goal. Now that our line of action has been irrevocably decided upon, we join in carrying it through, although, as unlikely as it may sound, should this country in the heat of battle so far fall from the standard set for it by President Wilson as to continue fighting needlessly from hatred or sheer unwillingness to desist...