Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...opinion that in case of war the members of the R. O. T. C. who are physically fit will probably receive commissions," General Leonard Wood, M.D. '84, stated yesterday to a CRIMSON reporter. "The enthusiasm and interest in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps is spreading and growing in a way that is fine to see. A great many applications for admittance are constantly pouring in. The number now coming in from Bowdoin, Wesleyan, Hamilton, and Union colleges is especially noteworthy. At Princeton the total enrolment has reached 863; and the students of the college have just petitioned for universal military...
Without intending affront to anyone, the Quadrangler would like to suggest to the editors of college newspapers that they devote most of their time at their coming convention at Harvard to find a way to make their journals fit to read. Some of the college papers are eyesores typographically, others read as though they were edited by grammar school students and still others, at best nothing more than glorified bulletin boards, betray a striking lack of initiative on the part of their managers. The influence, for good or evil, which a college newspaper possesses is not always appreciated. What effect...
...attention to the work of the individual men, emphasizing the importance of a strong catch and a hard drive with the legs. University A, in its workout in the tank, rowed together very well for this time of the season, and J. M. Franklin '18 at 4 appears to fit well in his new position. Coach Haines also gave the first Freshman boat a good 15-minutes in the tank. The men were chiefly coached in the rudiments, and Coach Haines carefully watched the men for signs of any elementary weakness. Beginning with March 15, Dr. Denny will...
...Monday, Major Cochran a member of Governor Whitman's staff assembled all Columbia students who have had military training in the National Guard, at a Plattsburg camp, or at West Point. Drilling began Monday afternoon, when a squad of 25 such men started a course of training which will fit them to lead a battalion of students...
...shouldn't membership in a big club constitute a lawful reward and acknowledgment of achievement, it may be asked. If to belong to any club on Prospect was in itself an indication that a member had done something to merit honor and distinction, that question might be a fit one for argument. But merit is not the criterion of election. It is rather type. In every one of the big clubs, it is the effort of those in charge of the election to secure men of the same stamp as themselves and their club-mates. This makes a rigid system...