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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...gratifying results of the war" said Col. Goetz last night to a CRIMSON reporter, "is the enthusiasm throughout the entire country among colleges and universities toward military training in the future. Among the great lessons learned from our gigantic preparation for the world war were the experiences that men obtained in the officers' training camps. It was learned very early in the war that not much training could be given in three months, the time allotted to each camp. These camps might have been more appropriately called selection, or selection-and-training camps, as in every camp...
President Taft, in his message to the University, speaks in this manner: "Indifference and even opposition will be met, but among you college men this must not be." In other words the colleges should lead in the discussion of this vital matter as they have led in such discussions through all history. If thoughtful men of the world are unable to reach any conclusion in regard to it and the whole proposition is lost in the diplomatic shuffle we shall be forced to admit that as our nation was unprepared for was so is it unprepared for peace...
...aspect of intercollegiate athletics is something more than a vague tendency; it is, indeed, a fact which is becoming ever more clearly-established. One cannot escape obvious conclusions, of which the chief, I think, is that Harvard, Yale, and Princeton--traditional leaders in intercollegiate sport--intend to work out among themselves a code of athletics which will satisfy the scrupulous investigation of any scrupulously inclined person who feels impelled at any future time to undertake the task. --New York Evening Post...
...Observatory and renowned astronomer, who died at his home Monday evening after a brief illness, will be held at Appleton Chapel this afternoon at 1 o'clock. The service will be conducted by the Rev. Joel Hastings Metcalf of Winchester, an astronomer and life-long friend of Professor Pickering. Among the honorary pall bearers will be President Charles W. Eliot, and Professors C. R. Cross, G. P. Bowditch '63, and Elihu Thomson...
...army of the unemployed is daily assuming more threatening proportions in the United States. While Congress is groping with conservative haste among a multitude of bills designed to relieve the situation, the curtailment of war industries and the rapid discharge of soldiers is adding thousands each week to the already over-supplied labor market. When we add to these two potent sources of unemployed the present inevitable halt in the industrial machinery while it is changing from war to peace operation, the problems of relief become both grave and complex in the extreme...