Word: branches
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...view of the brilliant season of the hockey team, something may be said in justification of this branch of athletics as a major sport. Two facts stand out indisputably. Hockey at Harvard is, and has been, a highly successful sport. Several championships have been registered in it for the University; and a similar record is apparent with the Freshman teams. Secondly, it holds pre-eminence as a winter sport, especially since swimming is handicapped by the lack of a pool. Including managerial competitions and scrub teams, more than 200 men are concerned with hockey during the season, and this number...
...first steps towards organizing a Yale Aviation Corps have been taken and sixty men have handed in their names as desiring training in that branch of the service. Although the membership of the Aviation Corps as it will work at Tobyhanna next summer will be limited to ten men, those competing during the winter and spring will receive valuable instruction and practice...
...comprehensiveness of the system of Freshman musical activities for the second half-year marks a new and important step in the popularization of this branch of art. The revival of the class Glee, Mandolin, and Banjo Clubs, after their hibernation through the first year of 1918, will be an extra prize of some value for the most proficient. The heart of the new system, however, is the interdormitory competition. With no limit on the size of these clubs, any Freshman may get some elementary knowledge of music. The half hour of practice on Wednesday evenings can be made into...
...Americans know. Harvard has sent very few men, and these few have gone to investigate and collect, not to lecture. Consequently, outside of a few of the larger educational institutions, Harvard is unknown. "At one of the smaller universities," said Dr. Klein, "I was asked if Harvard was a branch of Columbia...
...Medical Schools, the field of business enterprise is regarded as a profession. In the past a man "went into business" because he wasn't fitted for anything else. Today, with the intricate developments of commerce, a man, to be successful, is forced to fit himself for a special branch of business. After the first year's work in required subjects essential for the understanding of any branch of this many-sided profession, the second year is devoted to scientific research in a specialized field...