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Cornell, in common with land-grant colleges, has had obligatory military service as a part of its course of study since the institution was opened to students in 1868. The university aims to give all its undergraduates enough military training to qualify them to become officers of volunteers. Military efficiency of the highest order is attained. Delinquencies in drill are treated like any other academic failure, and the five per cent, who receive failure in the drill take the work over. Officers of the rating of captain and lieutenant are given faculty rating as assistants...
...other income, but this goes to show that the University is in this respect exceedingly poor. It is so poor in funds available to meet running expenses that over a period of 11 years, when general wages and commodities rose some 60 per cent., it was unable to grant any increase in teaching salaries...
President emeritus, Major Henry Lee Higginson '55; president, Odin Barnes Robert '86; vice-president, Robert Frederick Herrick '90; treasurer, Frederick Sumner Meade '87; secretary, Philips Wingate Thompson '02; directors to serve until-April, 1920, Walter Cabot Baylies '84, Dr. David Cheever '97, Alexander Galt Grant '07, John Anderson Sweetser '11; committee on elections to serve until April, 1920, Roger Amory '10, Wells Blanchard '16, Charles Chester Lane '04, Henry Smith Thompson '99, William Tecumseh Sherman Thorndike, '15, Richard Wigglesworth '12, Edward Atkinson Winsor...
Cornell University, one of the institutions to benefit from the Federal Land Grant Act of 1862 which contributed a permanent fund to its endowment, support, and maintenance provided that the university "teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanical arts without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics," has ever since its founding included a compulsory course in military science and tactics in its curriculum...
...field events, the department in which the University squad is fundamentally weak, the Elis are unusually strong In the pole vault, Heyl and Nagel can both clear 12 feet. Rodman and Grant are the best of the high jumpers, and the latter has done over 22 feet in the broad jump. Braden, the football star, can toss the weight 45 feet and is the logical winner of the shot put against both the University and Princeton. Of the field events, Yale is weakest in the hammer-throw