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Major Swan, author of "My Company", who had been a member of the First Corps Cadets since his graduation in 1901, went overseas as a Captain of Engineers in September, 1917. For a short time he was attached to General Pershing's staff at Chaumont and was then transferred to the front, where he was stationed for almost a year...
...While attached to the General's staff in the fall of 1917", he said, "I had the honor of seeing much of Major James Shannon, later Lieut-Col., the officer who did such splendid work with the R. O. T. C. Although he disliked staff work and longed to be with the army in the field, like the good soldier that he was, he did not complain and was considered one of the most capable officers on the staff. After a year he obtained his transfer and rode all night on horseback to join his regiment at the front, going...
Another meeting of the athletic heads of Yale, Princeton and the University took place in New York Tuesday evening. No news of the first meeting had been given to the press, and the general impression was spread that the three universities were planning a close and exclusive combine known as the "Big Three." Major Moore '93, Graduate Treasurer of the Athletic Association, in the CRIMSON, and Professor Corwin, chairman of Yale's Board of Athletic Control, in the Yale News, denied any exclusiveness on the part of Yale, Princeton and the University. At the second conference a statement in regard...
...radical changes in athletic policies or relations have been contemplated. There has been no thought of any "Big Three League," or of drawing out of athletic relations with other colleges or universities; an inspection of the published athletic schedules of Harvard, Yale and Princeton will show this. The general topics that have been talked over have been temporary changes in the eligibility rules, made necessary by the fact that so many students have been in military service, and the arrangement of dates and places for intercollegiate athletic contests in the different branches of sport. All reports attributing any further significance...
...Yale Board of Athletic Control has set forth radical changes in the general athletic policy. Great benefits are in the new system in so far as athletics for the undergraduate body are developed, and in the establishment of good athletic supervision. But in the spirit of reorganization, Yale seems to have overshot the mark and evidences a desire to win at all costs. This aspiration to retrieve the fallen Eli athletic laurels seems to have gone beyond the scope of the desired reconstruction, in the reduction of the much discussed expensive semi-professionalism of college athletics, particularly by the resumption...