Word: evens
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...back of the undergraduate mind. It is unfortunate, however, that such irrelevant pictures of those of the Yale crew in its tank and water polo at Yale should be placed in a more conspicuous position than that or our newly-elected hockey captain. We may welcome pictures, even to the extent of two and a half pages, showing how other colleges are preparing for the war, but Yale water polo is a little out of place. Another unfortunate error, marring an otherwise excellent number, is the failure to give Dr. Sargent his proper title. It would be serious enough...
...Sargent's article itself is a particularly timely reminder that not the whole of preparedness lies in teaching men to present arms and form fours, or even to dig trenches and shoot accurately. As Dr. Sargent points out, if men are to serve and not handicap the army, they must be physically fit to stand up under the strain of first-line service; and participation in athletics is the best way to keep fit. The case of those physically unfit to serve--75 percent. of the student body, says Dr. Sargent--is even more serious. However...
...article on the Wireless Club is most interesting: telling as it does of the excellent work of this organization which has been almost unheard of by the College at large. The editorials are up to the usual standard, even though the discussion as to whether professor and student should speak to each other on meeting in the Yard seems a little out of place at this time. This is more than atoned for by the common sense and particular timeliness of the words on "Business as Usual" and on athletics...
...experience of England and Canada both at their universities and with their armies in the field that it is not desirable to cut out athletic sports however serious the situation. With a long period of preparation before us it is decidedly unnecessary and unwise to do so here. Even in the present unsettled condition there is no reason why we should put an end to those normal activities which we may with entire fitness continue...
Within a year there must be nearly 40,000 officers in our army. We have now only a small fraction of that number, and even in the regular army there is scarcity of officers competent to take hold of a body of men and instill in them the principles of obedience and discipline and the rudiments of modern military science. But the regular army man, no matter how limited his practice may have been in that kind of work, is in the way to master it quickly. With the reserve officers the task will be harder, but they will...