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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This course, having undergone several changes of detail since its inception, is now required for students during their first two years at Cornell. The work is in charge of a captain and a lieutenant of the regular service with 12 noncommissioned assistants. These officers supervise all instruction. Commissioned officers for the corps are chosen from the upper classes and receive a salary from the university for their work. Noncommissioned officers are chosen from the ranks...
...drill and the like. The corps continues out-of-doors drill even through the winter months, except when such work is absolutely impossible. At such times the corps is addressed in assembly by men of authority, or meets by companies for instruction in and discussion of field problems in detail...
...Jean the Woman" was adapted by one Jeannie Macpherson and produced by Cecil de Mille with creditable attention to historic detail and imposing display. Three scenes--the raising of the Siege of Orleans, the Coronation, and the final episode of the Martyrdom--stand out from the rest, and are more than worth seeing. Only it must be said that the Orleans business, though magnificent in effect, is, from the strategic point of view, extremely puzzling. We do not know whether Miss Macpherson is responsible for the battle scenes, but we fear the "love interests" in the photo-play must...
...life and passion of the "Flower of France" are quite wonderful and divine enough in historic fact, without adding sugary heroics in order to pamper a public taste as cheap as dirt. The crime of her trial and death are in all belief bad enough without inventing impossibly fiendish detail and a demonaic bishop for villain. Incidentally, the authoress of "Joan the Woman" seemed to have been rather hard put to it to present a good group of Frenchmen as the soldiers of the Maid and an equally good group of Englishmen compelled by cruel History to be her murderers...
Satisfactory as is the general plan of the system now in use at the Widener Library, it contains one detail which would instantly attract the eye of any efficiency expert seeking to eliminate unnecessary motion. The trip to the second floor of the Library is the cause of many steps that might easily be saved if it were arranged to have the books returned at either the Lower Reading Room or at the desk on the first floor. Attendants are already present at both places and the books might be relayed to their proper places by means of a small...