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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Bowdoin, Brown, Colby, Dartmouth, Harvard, Maine, M. I. T., had Yale. The Middle Atlantic States have as entrants Columbia, Cornell, Georgetown, Haverford, Johns Hopkins, Lafayette, New York University, Pennsylvania, Penn. State, Princeton, Rutgers, Swarthmore, and Syracuse. Michigan is the sole entrant from the middle west, while California and Stanford come from the Pacific Coast...
...preparatory schools, and the third Saturday in May was decided upon as the date best suited to all parties. The faculty has approved the proposed plan and promised to co-operate with the schools in regard to excusing men from college appointments. This scheme only includes the men coming from private schools, but should all those who come from easily accessible schools, both public and private, be allowed to return on a particular day the resulting advantages would be more far-reaching. Since Harvard is situated in the centre of an area comprising the largest number of preparatory schools...
...last until September 12, 1916. The country is in need of a naval reserve of at least 100,000 men and, while some of these can be obtained from former officers or enlisted men of the service and others from the mercantile marine, the great majority must come from the ranks of civilians who are engaged in other than maritime pursuits. The course of training will be given on board reserve battleships of the fleet. These ships in reserve have reduced Navy complements on board and this will enable us to take about 500 civilians on each ship. The ships...
Contrary to the general notion, fewer than half of the 9,000 already enlisted are college men. Business and professional men from every walk of life are enrolled. Northern New England has furnished 2,000, 1,600 of whom come from Greater Boston. The first camp will start in less than two weeks. Enrollments from New England colleges to May 15 follow: Stdts. Alumni. Total. Harvard, 364 687 874 Yale, 103 394 497 Williams, 61 98 159 M. I. T., 19 130 149 Dartmouth, 23 79 102 Amherst, 15 77 92 Brown, 19 48 67 Worcester Polytech...
...this year the Bureau has been advising, on an average, about thirty men a week. Of these, many have come for help in smaller matters, and have availed themselves of the aid of the Bureau for a short time, while others have received aid for extended periods. In only five or six cases did the work of men being advised fail to improve. In the majority of cases, the work improved noticeably in the matter of grades, the ratio of men on probation who got off after being assisted being greater than that of other...