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...regard, these Americans in a foreign country have produced from the resources at hand a complete ready-made university, whose 10,000 students have 200 study courses to choose from, and whose instructors number 500 thoroughly qualifed men, all of them trained teachers, some of them America's best...
...teammates. The University nine showed a marked improvement in every department of the game, and played a far better brand of ball than they have exhibited in any game this season. The defense of the team was decidedly stiffened, while the Crimson batters touched Zink, Amherst's best pitcher, for a total of eight hits...
...addition, the program of instruction shows the liberalizing tendency of the University. While following the same general principles as at older institutions, the work is not so confined to one particular specialty. The electives, moreover, afford a chance to take some of the best cultural courses of the College. This allows a man to obtain a more general education than he could at an ordinary technical school...
With so able a staff of instructors and with the help of the McKay Endowment, the University, should have no difficulty in making the Engineering School one of the best in the country...
...questionable if this support can be best given through college organizations. An ex-soldier or officer will desire, to become affiliated with one "camp," which includes his own home town, rather than with a college group that lasts only the four years of his stay in Cambridge. The value of the separate units will lie in their permanence; a Harvard Legion would have a transient membership. Then, too, we doubt the interest which the average student, occupied with many other activities, would take in such a branch organization. Let us support, the American Legion by all means...