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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...education is not reserved for scholars alone. While mental training becomes more identical with the acquisition of practical knowledge, the demand for instruction in Greek and Latin grows less. The closer the co-operation between universities and the commercial, industrial universe of today, the greater becomes the call for college graduates. To meet this call, and to meet it with men specially trained in a specific phase of modern business, the older institutions of learning must eliminate what seems needless. So Cambridge has broken a time-honored standard to accommodate the needs of today. Nothing could show more strikingly...
...sorry that it is necessary to call your attention to a very serious error in one of your editorials of yesterday, January 24. You stated that two members of the Harvard Reserve Officers' Training Corps had been dishonorably discharged from the Corps. Neither of these men was dishonorably discharged. They were both discharged without honor. The distinction of course is far from being a merely technical one. The error is the more serious because it was copied by some of the Boston newspapers AUSTIN W. SCOTT, Disciplinary Officer, Harvard...
...candidates for the University and Freshman rifle teams because of the nearness of the examination period. From the men who have been shooting regularly, however, several excellent scores have been received. After the mid-years there will be longer periods of practice for both squads and another call for candidates will be made. New men, reporting for the first time, can sign up with R. C. Hardy '20, Randolph 57, W. J. Louderback '20, Claverly 10, or A. E. Chambers '21, Persis Smith...
...total saving would be 75 watts per student, or 112,500 watt-hours. Call it 120 kilowatt-hours...
...year ago the registration at Yale was more than 3,300. The present wave of departure is accounted for by the knowledge that the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, to which about 900 of the undergraduates belong, will be called upon by the Government in a few weeks. Many of its members are taking advantage of an opportunity to spend a short time at home before finally entering military service. When the call for members of the corps to report is made, it is estimated that the college membership will fall to about...