Word: general
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Princeton and Cornell have organized Field Artillery units. Brigadier-General Robert M. Danford adds: "During the coming week Colonel R. C. F. Goetz will go to Cambridge to organize a Harvard battery, . . . . It is hoped and expected that about twelve or fifteen of our largest universities will accept the invitation to undertake Field Artillery courses...
...General Danford speaks of a combined summer camp in which there may be a "spirit of healthy rivalry in developing esprit, skill, and efficiency," and anticipates keen competition among Harvard, Princeton, and Yale when firing records are being kept...
...General is not alone in his conception of Field Artillery as a sport alluring. One prominent New York sporting editor queries...
That there at present exists a decided collegiate reaction against all things military hardly touches on the case. General Danford himself admits it but advocates "a furlough for the rest of the year" and "a real start in the fall...
With the approval of the Yale Corporation, President Hadley, recently laid down the general features of Yale's reconstruction policy. President Hadley plans to establish separate schools for the specialization of students in different branches of professional work, but to form a mediation between the two classes of students in the university--"the semi-professional students working under the group system and the non-professional students working under the elective system...