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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...effect of this on colleges will not be slight. By giving to numerous institutions a semi-military character, the training units must surely attract those coming undergraduates who hesitate in entering. No one can feel that his further education is needless, if that is combined with preparation for a commission. In the face of decreasing enrolments, much encouragement lies in the fact that universities will come to include men who want military instruction...
...question of an informal swimming team this year has not yet been decided upon. Freshman manager candidates are now engaged in a University-wide canvass to discover what former swimmers can come out for the team if one is formed. As soon as the reports from this canvass are completed, it will be known whether there is sufficient interest to organize a team. The captain-elect of this season's swimming squad, R. E. Jackson '19, was commissioned a lieutenant at the last Plattsburg award, and none of the regulars of last year's team have returned to College...
...fact that the undergraduate mind is enlarging its boundaries has appeared quite conclusively from the changing tone and content of more than one undergraduate newspaper, whether daily or weekly. To columns which had long been filled with little more than the trivialities of campus life, there have lately been coming topics affecting the military drill of the students, the service which college men have been rendering in the war and must render still more abundantly, questions of real preparation for life. Several student editors, notably the editor in charge of the Williams Record, have shown a disposition to give their...
Blue-books are still posted on the bulletin boards of the Freshman Halls, and members of 1921 who wish to play Interdormitory hockey are asked to register in them. If a greater number do not come out, no series will be played...
...zero weather has driven the R. O. T. C. to the shelters of the cage and the Municipal Building. The latter edifice is indeed a shelter, the cage is merely a protection against the icy blasts that come down the valley of the Charles. Yet the cage can be drilled in; a skilful officer can maneouvre a company within its bounds, but Pershing himself would be baffled if he had to train a company of ten squads in the Municipal Building...