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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...appreciate the value of energy, initiative, courtesy, and tact. This baseball competition, especially, on account of necessary changes in organization and system will give a man plenty of opportunity to receive credit for original constructive work. The routine work for the Second Assistants, which will be divided equally among the candidates, will consist of field work with the University nine, complete charge of the Second team games, including several out of town trips, and office work, including six out of town games. While it will be necessary to devote considerable time to the competition, the variety, of the duties...
...date, help a little to remedy this; and it is encouraging to note that they are to be extended to the rooms of the other buildings. It may be suggested that, inasmuch as the names of the better known recent members of the University still have some currency among present undergraduates, it would be of value to keep the lists already posted up to date. For, except in the case of men who have achieved wide fame, the names of graduates of the last few years mean more to present occupants than those of twenty or more years...
...Another objection that has been raised is that a man doing such work would lose caste among his fellow-students. This question may best be answered by the statement that this year, 102 men registered at the Student Employment Office as desiring this sort of work. Of this number 44 were experienced. That there is this demand, and especially that men who have done the work and know what it is wish to do more of it, seems to dispose conclusively of this objection. It is hardly clear just why such employment works to a man's disadvantage any more...
...special foundation of $10,000 has been created in memory of Arthur Howe Pingree '90, of Norwood, for the purpose of training leaders of boys, particularly Scout Masters and assistant Scout Masters, who are preparing to render service among growing boys, in the interest of a high quality of manhood and citizenship. The foundation is to be held by the Trustees of Boston University and expended by them in accordance with the judgment of the Board of Directors. It is the purpose of this memorial to provide a course of lectures on the theory and practice of Boy Scout leadership...
...football mass meeting to be held in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock. As has been the custom, the plays will be explained in detail by Coach P. D. Haughton '99, who will also give a short talk on football in the University. Among the other speakers of the evening will be Coach R. W. P. Brown '98, Captain J. R. Gilman '17, and former Captain E. W. Mahan '16, who will talk on the personal side of the games this year. Plans for the spring as well as the fall practice will...