Word: generals
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...College Rally," which is this year to supersede most of the college dinners and reunions ordinarily held in Boston each winter, will take place at the Boston Opera House at 7.45 o'clock tomorrow evening. Herbert Parker '78, formerly Attorney General of Massachusetts, will preside, and the speakers will be James M. Beck of New York, at one time Assistant United States Attorney General, and John A. Rathom, the well-known editor of the Providence, R. I., Journal. The musical part of the program will be supplied by a band of 50 pieces and a large chorus under the direction...
...subjects, while technical, will have value for the civilian as well as for the soldier. Allied subjects bearing close relation to these will fall under group "B." Thus an R. O. T. C. student may learn to speak French in a course on artillery terms and the language in general; he will be drilled in English composition with a view to gaining facility in writing clear and well-constructed letters, reports and various military documents; he will take work in science which will bear on the firing, signaling and other details of artillery; and he will study history which will...
These extension courses are the results of an effort on the part of the Cambridge Public School Association, in co-operation with Mayor Quinn, to bring the teachers and pupils together and thus to avoid the present waste of time brought about by the general closing of public schools during the coal crisis. Several thousand children in Cambridge below the eighth grade have been enjoying an enforced vacation during the past two weeks because there is no coal to heat their school buildings...
True to the general policy of colleges at the present time, Yale has taken one more step towards a complete military regime. She already has an extensive course in military training and now proposes to add to this at the expense of the regular college work...
...college training units. As all men in these units now may get into Officers' Training Camps, it is only right that they have sufficient training to make them excellent material for the Camps. The three hours of college work sacrificed in this change will not seriously effect general education, and yet the military experience which will be gained is of great importance, considering the advantages offered by the Government to college...