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Representative Britten's resolution providing for a congressional investigation of the educational system at the West Point Military Academy is of interest to those who have the safety of the nation at heart as well as to those who have this safety directly in their care. Whatever individual opinion may hold as to the efficiency of West Point graduates in the science of war there can be little doubt that on the whole the work of the West Pointers was not thoroughly satisfactory to the army in France nor to the nation at home...
...spite of the numerous appeals made by the committee. The members of the committee make a final appeal to the class spirit of these men and urge them to hand their histories in at Matthews 5 immediately. The men who have not responded are as follows: Belford, Bennett, Berman, Britten, E. F. Cahill, H. K. Caner, F. W. Capper, C. F. Choate, W. Cohen, Coogan, S. Coolidge, Jr., F. deL. Cunningham, T. Davis, H. R. Donahue, R. A. Donahue, Endicott, Gielman, Goertner, Herbsman, Lucas, MacDonald, Petersen, L. Ramsdell, Sipple, Spang, Swan. Temple, Tilton, Van Courtlandt, Vogel, Wainwright, Wentworth, R. Whithall...
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Merle De Witt Britten '15, of Cambridge, was killed in Boston early in July by being crushed between two electric cars. Britten was working for the Boston Elevated Railroad Co. as conductor; and while he was adjusting a trolley, his car was backed, pinning him against another car directly in the rear and injuring him fatally...
...Besides Britten's illuminating and necessary editorial on the examination system, the best thing in the number to an old editor--or at least the most comforting--is Douglas's farewell, written in "open and truculent satisfaction," patiently boosting the paper. The present board has done a good work; it has set up the shattered altar, and the smoke of the incense is sweet to the nostrils...