Word: establish
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...many reasons the work of the Regiment reflected great credit on its members but particularly because the entire plan was originated and developed without any voluntary aid on the part of the War Department. This year the tables are turned and the War Department has offered to establish one or more units of the reserve officers' training 'corps' at Harvard. Therefore a different character of responsibility rests upon the students, it is to recognize the value of the War Department's move and convince the military authorities by a large enrolment in the new course that the undergraduates desire military...
...made by N. S. Taber in the Stadium last July. He has announced that he will run two races at the National A. A. U. Championships in Newark in September, the 440-yard dash and the mile. It will probably be at this meet that he will attempt to establish a new mile record. Several prominent track coaches have expressed the belief that Meredith has it in him to negotiate a mile in faster time than has ever been made...
...cleaned up at the short distances, and then won the four-mile championship. The year before Columbia was invincible over the short courses, and won the four-mile race at Poughkeepsie without turning a hair. So it goes, not invariable, to be sure, but with sufficient frequency to establish a fair presumption in its favor...
...university curriculum, according to a statement by Professor R. M. M. McElroy of Princeton. The intellectual side of military training, lectures, and other instruction, he believes to be a proper part of college work, but the drill should be reserved for summer military camps. Princeton tried to establish a training corps at the time of the Spanish War, and it was found to be a failure...
Professor McElroy says: "In Princeton we have not instituted military drill, and there is little indication on the part either of the Faculty or of the student body of a desire to establish it. Modern military training involves two rather distinct elements, the one intellectual, the other largely physical. The first we believe to be part of a university curriculum; the second can be most economically and effectively managed by the National Military Training Camps...