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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...plan has received the personal attention of General Danford, Field Artillery Chief, who has placed Colonel Beard in command. As in past years the Government provides uniforms, and all other equipment, together with free riding facilities for the men. Provision will be made for work this summer at one of the army firing centres, but summer work will not be compulsory this year...
...biggest problems facing the University is the formation of a new military program. There are two main questions to be decided. Shall the military courses be compulsory? And shall the chief concentration of study be in infantry or artillery? As regards the first of these a compromise seems the wisest course. If military science were compulsory the Freshman year and elective after that, it would serve all its purposes. It would give every undergraduate some knowledge of the military game and would offer an opportunity to those who desired to become experts. A man with four years of military education...
...Better 'Ole" purports to represent a faithful picture of Tommy Atkins as made famous through Captain Bairns-father's cartoons. Therefore its chief characteristic naturally is humor, which, blended with some of the softer feelings which find such remarkable expression in the private soldier, is sustained throughout the entire play. A perfectly impossible plot gives the series of seven "splinters" and a "short gas attack" a slight backbone. The story centres about Old Bill's discovery of a German plot, his blowing up of the strategic bridge, and his subsequent court martial and award...
...Warburg is one of the chief exponents of the League to Enforce Peace. It was at a dinner given by him and attended by President Lowell, William H. Taft, and others, that the idea of such a league was actually started in this country. He will speak on some subject connected with the League of Nations...
...Student Council will meet in the CRIMSON Building this evening at 7.30 o'clock. The chief purpose of this meeting will be to organize the Council and reestablish all University and class activities on the pre-war basis. Class elections will also be considered. All members of last year's Student Council should attend this meeting...