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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...work of the cadet corps in the fall consists mainly in thorough instruction in close order drill and the manual of arms, with tent pitching, bayonet exercises, calisthenic 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...
...members of the University for the corps will start at once, as the project will fail unless the full quota of 80 men be obtained. The Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps will have entire charge of the enterprise, the donor supplying all necessary funds to make it a complete success. Except for the sum of $100 for personal use, all expenses except transportation will be paid, and this latter cost will be borne by the donor in the case of volunteers unable to secure the money themselves. The men will sail as soon as the sections are completely organized. C. Higginson...
Make-up mid-year examinations are held for such students as have satisfied the Recorder that their absence from the regular mid-year examinations was caused by serious illness or other unavoidable hindrance. No student is permitted to take any books or papers into the examination room except by express direction of the instructor. No communication is permitted between students in the examination room on any subject whatsover. No student is permitted to come late to an examination...
...Lloyd, or any other undergraduate ask for the time of any professor outside his office hours (which no one ever knows) and he will soon see why our Faculty are called the "Vanishing Wonders." As for personal contact with professors, either social or scholastic, it simply does not exist, except in a very few noteworthy cases. The University teas (stiff, unnatural functions that they are) are never largely attended. As for professors, only two or three, in the writer's knowledge, hold regular recep- tions where a student can come, listen to what is said, and answer for once like...
...Prussianism" with which the "Union for American Neutrality" was greeted. In two of the eleven poems in the number-- "My Peace I Leave With You," by Robert S. Hillyer, and "The Hour," by W. A. Norris--one hears at least an echo from the present upheaval of mankind. Otherwise, except for Mr. Hunt's contribution, everything might be going on just as usual outside of Harvard College. It is a curious, and rather disturbing, phenomenon...