Word: adds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...resolution was passed which gave to the new executive committee the power to add to the list of events any new exhibitions or competitions which it might deem advisable to include. This means that military drills and military athletic events such as wall scaling and grenade throwing may be on the program. It was decided also to hold exhibitions of javelin and discus throwing. Though there was the ever recurring discussion as to whether the hammer throw should be eliminated from the list, no such motion was carried, and the event will undoubtedly take place as usual...
...later of those who cannot keep the pace, or who do not prove capable of doing the work well. That sounds reasonable, but anyone, who is in the habit of conducting a class knows that the pace depends upon the students as well as the instructor, and that to add to a class even a small proportion of men less competent than the rest inevitably slows the pace for all. In all human affairs, it is only the selected group that can be kept in a state of efficiency...
True to the general policy of colleges at the present time, Yale has taken one more step towards a complete military regime. She already has an extensive course in military training and now proposes to add to this at the expense of the regular college work...
...good feature of the plan is the requiring of a certain number of hours of History and French, besides military work for men entering college. This will not only add appreciably to the usefulness of an officer in war, but cannot be objected to by opponents of the militarization of colleges. Since those two subjects are valuable in themselves...
...impracticable. The camp was originally designed to accommodate a large number of men and contains quarters, classrooms and drafting rooms sufficient for the use of 150 students. Because of war conditions and the large expense involved in running the camp it was decided that it would be unwise to add such a large deficit to the University's treasury. The summer work, was also abandoned last year because of the war for the first time in 25 years, but the authorities expect that it will be resumed after the war, when conditions have changed sufficiently to justify its maintenance...