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...desire to enlist in the new Corps must be 18 at the time of their enlistment, but not over 45 at the time of their graduation. Not more than 20 per cent of the quota assigned to a given institution may consist of students under the age of 18 who have agreed in writing to enlist in the Army Enlisted Reserve Corps when they attain the age of 18. Physical requirements remain unchanged...
...course to be conducted under the supervision of Naval officers will be elective and open to members of the class of 1930. It is designed as a four year course, to be divided into two parts, the Basic Course and the Advanced Course. The Basic Course will consist of a two years training in the rudiments of naval gunnery, construction, and navigation. It will parallel the preliminary course in the Military Training Department. The Advanced Course will be open only to those who have completed the first two years' work...
...best a twinkling paradox, has become a fundamental principle not only at Harvard but wherever education is advancing. Traditionally, as President Lowell says, we have proceeded "on general principles," assuming that young men are, "for practical (educational) purposes equivalent." Under the elective system, progress was thought to consist in multiplying the number of "courses" provided and the number of instructors. As all students were born equal, so were all subjects. It was a system of laissez faire. Today progress consists in "thinking not of the course but of the student as the unit." Education is measured by the "character energy...
...that it lacks many of the weight and training machines that are available at the MAC. And the facility is anything but uncrowded as the large number of varsity sports at Harvard necessitates that several teams share the facility at once. Additionally, cardiovascular equipment for varsity athletes does not consist of rows of unused treadmills but rather a few exercise bikes that lack the nifty digital displays of those...
...festivities, now in their fourth year, consist of a pie-eating contest and a highly anticipated pi recitation contest. Despite a lineup that includes four of Harvard’s most arguably voracious mathematicians, no one counts on the stunning upset from first-time competitor and eleven-year-old New Hampshire resident Ryan Heden, who dominates the recitation competition with a stern, focused rendition of 387 digits of pi. “I just memorized [the digits],” Heden boasts matter-of-factly. However, memory alone can’t carry him through the pie-eating contest?...