Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...members of the University and Freshman crew squads was held in the Trophy Room of the Union last evening. Captain Whitman gave a short talk, outlining the plans for the season, and urging all men to report regularly and promptly. Coach Haines then gave a demonstration of correct and incorrect form in rowing, assisted by C. F. Batchelder, Jr., '20. He compared briefly the types of shell rigging at the various colleges, and emphasized the advantages of the Harvard stroke...
...returning officers and enlisted men. Erroneous and in completed reports of Syracuse's action appeared several weeks ago in the eastern papers, and gave rise to the editorial in the CRIMSON of February 12, entitled "Unhonored and Unsung." We are glad to learn that these reports are not correct, though we still question the advisability of distinguishing between men technically trained officers and untrained privates in awarding war credits; the University's system of treating all men returning from the service exactly alike appears to us the only wise course. The chancellor's statement follows...
Since the publication of the Honor Roll in yesterday's issue, the CRIMSON is glad to record that it has received word from an unofficial source that the report of the death of Elmer Ellsworth Hagler, Jr., '16, which appeared in the official casualty lists is not correct. A recent letter from E. C. Wynne '17 informs us that Hagler has been very seriously wounded at Chateau-Thierry and is now recuperating in a base hospital at St. Nazaire...
...guides during their most impressionable years of the future Americans. The startling number of young men disclosed by the draft who are illiterate or physically imperfect shows that our schools are functioning imperfectly even now. Should not the strong arm of the National Government reach out, then, and correct and regulate our common schools? It surely can do much good by way of improvement. But quite within the range of possibilities are very terrible dangers. If the states must follow the policy laid down by the National Department of Education in order to enjoy the nation's largess...
...from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton served the nation equally well during the emergency, no one institution distinguishing itself above the others for its measure of sacrifice. It is evident that it is not the mere superiority in numbers of men in the service which furnishes a basis for a correct estimate of a college's patriotism, but the proportional sacrifices of the different institutions...