Word: attractive
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...passage of a suitable physical examination required. The training given at the Williams camp last summer was of very good quality. It will proceed again this year with Major General William A. Pew, M. N. G., retired, as its superintendent. General Pew showed a rather unusual ability to attract to his aid officers, including especially foreign officers, capable of giving competently modernized instruction, and it may be hoped that he will succeed in this effort again. Whether it be in the famous trenches at Fresh Pond, or in the trench system and wide manoeuvre fields available at Williamstown, here...
...thousands of yesterday have become the billions of today as America enters the second year of her financial support of the war. Large figures no longer attract attention and have become the rule rather than the exception. Yet anyone who attempts a mental picture of a billion dollars or a million men is astounded by their magnitude. We may take pride in the greatness of our resources, but we may wonder at the strain they are now standing...
...maximum number of men at athletics in order to improve their physical condition. By dropping intercollegiate athletics so suddenly the colleges have gone a long way towards keeping the minimum number interested. It is unfortunately true, especially in rowing, that an informal season with intramural competition will not attract a large number of candidates. If the athletic rulers wish to get the greatest numbers out, they must provide some intercollegiate meetings with our natural rivals no matter how much the season may be modified from the pre-war standards. If they will promise, on their side, to give us competition...
This does not mean we have to rush back to the old system with its numerous faults. We do not need to have coaches drawing enormous salaries, nor advertising campaigns to attract crowds of thousands. We simply desire to play in a contest with teams which are like our own. Baseball and possibly track could be dragged out along informal lines, but to try to have an informal crew would be the heighth of absurdity. Two facts argue strongly for intercollegiate games. The first is that the President of the United States and the leading men of the War Department...
...effect of this on colleges will not be slight. By giving to numerous institutions a semi-military character, the training units must surely attract those coming undergraduates who hesitate in entering. No one can feel that his further education is needless, if that is combined with preparation for a commission. In the face of decreasing enrolments, much encouragement lies in the fact that universities will come to include men who want military instruction...