Word: fall
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Freshman rowing season was started yesterday when 60 candidates reported to Coach Haines at the Newell Boathouse. This number, however, is very much under the average number in the past and additional candidates are wanted. Over 100 Freshmen reported for fall rowing last autumn and over 110 men were out for the 1919 crews at this time last year. All new men should report at Newell this afternoon at 3.45 o'clock...
...Princeton men--all college men, in fact--should be trained to be officers; some of them, manifestly, will fall short of attaining the degree of preparation necessary, but for the most part upon educated men should fall the task of leading in war. Obviously, officers should be trained better than the men they will command. I think the drill undergraduates will receive in the course we are now planning to institute will be of valuable assistance in providing that knowledge of formations, etc., so needed for proper preparation...
There will be a meeting of all interested in baseball at the Varsity Club next Tuesday evening February 13, at 7 o'clock. Anyone who has ever played baseball, whether members of last fall's squad or not, should attend the meeting, as Hugh Duffy, the new coach wants to get in touch with all the baseball men in the University...
Captain Beith was just under the maximum age limit for enlistment at the out-break of the war and immediately enrolled in the South Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, which went into training at Aldershot in the fall of 1914. The regiment remained in training for six months and was finally sent to the front in the spring of 1915 as members of the first detachment of England's ability and courage won him a commission and he rose rapidly to the rank of captain...
...training they receive the rank of first lieutenant. It takes the average man about three months of intensive instruction to learn how to fly and another three months to master the military side of the work. Since the burden of filling the ranks of the aviation corps will fall on college men it is thought that the complete course of training may be divided between two summers...