Word: certain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...view of certain misunderstandings of the attitude of the examination board for the Officers' Reserve Corps (Boston District) which appear to have arisen among members of the University, not members of the R. O. T. C., who plan to take the examinations for commissions in the Reserve Corps, the following statement was given out yesterday by a member of the board...
...been stated that in recommendations for commissions in the Officers' Reserve Corps there will be a certain predisposition against any member of the University who comes up for examination for the Corps without having enrolled in the local Training Corps. This arises from the lack of ambition and sincerity which the failure of students to join the Training Corps may be taken to evidence. It applies only to this extent and is not at all a bar to men who convince the board of the adequacy of their training and experience...
...movement looking to faculty control of college papers would probably be howled out of court as unwarranted interference with free speech and individual initiative. And yet it is by no means certain that some form of paternalism would not be desirable. The Quadrangler is not disposed to quarrel with those who assert that the average professor, with his exact mind and his curious notions of what the public ought to know, is ill-fitted to run a newspaper but he does contend that something ought to be done to insure the use of decent English in news stories...
...form has been shown by all members of the team, and chances for a victory at New Haven are exceedingly good. Yale, however, will be represented by veteran fencers, the same men who defeated the University last year by the score of 5 to 4, and it is certain that Captain Russell and his team-mates will be forced to show their best. Captain Pfleiger of Yale, who last year beat Captain Russell in two out of their three matches of the season, has been fencing brilliantly this year, and has changed his style of an open guard, formerly used...
...principles upon which it is founded, are taught or disseminated by officers of the university." This committee, which is to consist of five members, including the president, will inquire generally into the state of teaching at the university. This action by the trustees is probably aimed at certain antimilitaristic utterances by several Columbia professors...