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After serving as Civil Service Commissioner and Police Commissioner of New York City, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and Governor of New York, he was in 1900 elected Vice-President. When McKinley died he became President, and on November 4, 1904, he was returned to that office by the largest vote any candidate for President had received. At this expiration of his term of office, March 4, 1909, he ended his career as public office-holder and went to Africa on a hunting expedition...
...under preparation to give them the same sort of discipline. However, many men in the Naval Unit and the Junior S. A. T. C. have been using the upper reading room of Widener Library for study that 50 more seats will now be put in to accommodate the largest number of students Widener has ever seen
...national service and before the year is out their number will probably be increased to nearly 6000. There is at New Haven the only college artillery unit in the country, while the Sheffield Scientific School is the Army laboratory centre, and the Yale Naval Unit is so far the largest established. At present the enrolment in the S. A. T. C. is divided as follows: artillery, 600; naval unit, 500; laboratory corps, 300; signal corps, 200; and medical unit about 100. The university's exactions of the entering student are as strict as ever and it has declined to admit...
...Columbia all dormitories have been converted into barracks and the registration there will probably be the cause of the largest registration the university ever had. Besides the regular military work, Columbia has set itself the task of training skilled engineers in a two-year course. The new course will take up all branches of engineering and will be open to students with the customary high school education. Naturally it will run through the four quarters of the year. Under the present arrangements the new engineers will be given a special status with the regular...
Princeton University too has the largest number of men on its campus in its history. The total number of students and soldiers now training at Princeton is already about 2500 or more than 1000 above its regular enrolment in peace times. Many of these men will be enrolled in the school of Military Aeronautics and the new Paymasters' School instituted by the Navy, where instruction will be given exclusively by officers detailed by the Army and Navy Departments. As the university possesses particular facilities in the matter of rifle ranges, trench systems, dormitories, and large new dining halls where...