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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Brown '98 pointed out the fact that spring practice would add a twenty per cent increase to the ten weeks of training which will take place next fall. In emphasizing this point he said, "I have seen many games lost because of a few hours lack of practice, and we want to insure ourselves against such an occurence...
...Expenses of administration are paid by the Government and are not charged against the insurance, thereby granting the insured a net rate. The rates are based upon the American Experience Table of Mortality with interest at 3 1-2 per cent, figured upon a monthly basis. All policies contain a waiver of premium and total disability clause, making the proceeds payable at any time to the insured when he becomes totally and permanently disabled, regardless of his age, in monthly installments of $5.75 per $1,000 of insurance, covering the entire period of total disability for life of the insured...
...military service. In the 26th Division we had many cases of flat feet which made the men useless for hard military work. At the advice of one of my colonels who was an orthopedic specialist, these men were organized into a special training batalion. In eight weeks, 80 per cent of these supposedly unfit men were made physically sound and able to go on the hardest 20 mile hikes. This was the first of the 'development battalions' which later did so much to improve the physique of our boys...
Thirty-four per cent, of Harvard University is engaged in athletic sports. At Yale, though official figures are not available, an unofficial estimate would total about the same--more than thirty per cent. "Not near enough," snaps the advocate of general athletics and a game for every...
While a student may obtain two full courses credit by taking two half-courses in each session, yet the majority of the courses, over eighty per cent, are given in the first term, which extends from July 1st to August 9th, and four courses are continued through both sessions. The thirty courses of the second term, which lasts from August 11 to September 13, are mostly of an advanced nature, although "Inorganic Chemistry" and a course corresponding to Economics A will be given. During the first term Professor Thomas N. Carver will give a course on "Programmes of Social Reconstruction...