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...prospects for the coming season are not very bright, as many men have been lost by graduation, prominent among these being W. E. Nightingale '15 and E. M. Wanamaker '16; who is now in M. I. T. The men who remain from last year's squad are E. E. O'Neil '16, (captain), G. F. Beal '16, E. B. Flu '17, R. H. Franzen '17, S. E. Nash '16, and O. H. Persons '17. Flu and Franzen were substitutes last year, but will undoubtedly be regular men this year. From last year's Freshman squad R. O. Chaffee...
...Among the more important matches scheduled for the University tennis team during the coming season will be those with Cornell, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Leland Stanford, the contest with the Tigers being regarded as the match of primary consideration. In preparation for those matches the team and the general standard of tennis at the University will have an opportunity for development as great if not greater than that of the best country clubs in the vicinity of Boston...
Under its present administration, the Illustrated has begun to show signs of becoming the first among college pictorial publications. As readers of the magazine must have noted, a marked improvement has been made of late in the character of its contents. Although a pioneer in its field, its pre-eminence among its colleagues has, in times past, not always been maintained. Recently, however, the paper has undergone a thorough reorganization. The new plan to incoporate the magazine is almost certain to place it on a sound working foundation, and the appearance of two issues a month, beginning in May, will...
...college distinction. Nominally, the statistics show the Southern States with a percentage of 32 per cent. to lead the list of men of distinction. These figures, however, must be discounted. The New England States have so low a position in the list because there is less selection among the men coming from them; proximity is here a large factor. It would be fairer to New England were it possible to give position in a corresponding list drawn up at a university outside. At any rate, it is clear that a man from the Rocky Mountain States has as great...
...Among the subjects of instruction given by qualified U. S. army officers are principles of tactics, map-making, use of a rifle, cooking, sanitation, bridge-building, field telephone operation, psychology of war, and the military history of our country. Each student who completes the course will receive a certificate and his name and other data will be put on file in the War Department as a possible officer in event...