Word: ages
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President Eliot next called attention to the fact that the Swiss Government has indirectly and important supervision over children as soon as they are eight years old. At that age the boys are given gymnastic training, and three years later they are given practice in marching and drilling, and some training in the manual of arms. Gun clubs are formed with regular army muskets and and cartridges supplied by the government, and the boys soon acquire the skill which has made the Swiss soldiers the best marksmen in the world...
...life will be shown not in words, but in the shape of living accomplishment. The University will prove once more that after the lapse of three centuries, the young men of the nation have lost none of the strength or courage of John Harvard and the men of his age...
There is a further corollary to be drawn from yesterday's list of appointments. This applies to the men in the Corps now. Their opportunity is coming, for this war evidently will not be a short one and age limits are unstationary things. The enrolled students in Military Science and Tactics have seen what diligence has done for their predecessors. It is a faculty ever powerful. It can repeat its work whenever called upon. If our present undergraduates are considering lieutenancies and captaincies, the most effective consideration will be hard work from...
YALE. Name. Position Wt. Ht. Age School J. S. Acosta, c. 175 6 ft. 1 in. 18 Lawrenceville E. Buffington, g. 150 6 ft. 18 Berkshire W. S. Cowles, t. 170 6 ft. 1 in. 18 St. Paul's C. Dickens, t. 171 5 ft. 11 in. 18 Chestnut Hill R. Dilworth, e. 163 5 ft. 11 in. 17 St. Mark's D. C. Dines, h.b. 157 5 ft. 11 in. 19 Andover J. French, f.b. 165 5 ft. 10 in. 18 Pomfret R. Holden, b. 140 5 ft. 8 in. 18 Lawrenceville...
Approximately 50 men have taken away application blanks for the Third Series of Officers' Training Camps, and of these 25 have been handed in properly filled out. The authorities of the Corps are most anxious that all men of age should apply immediately, so that their names may be brought up for consideration as soon as possible. The record of each man will be examined carefully and recommendations will be based on merit...