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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...institution would so cling to their contract as to demand a payment of the guarantee under circumstances like the present. Financially, the year's receipts would be much larger than the expenditures, for the expenses of crew and the various Southern trips would be done away with, and the largest receipt item, the returns from football, is already...
...Intercollegiate Intelligence Bureau advises you that 50 of the largest and most prominent universities, colleges and technical schools throughout the country are ready to provide the nation with men of specialized training for every need which may arise in your plans for rational defence...
Cornell has a new armory, the largest university building of its kind in the country, in which 2,000 men can drill at the same time. The building, modelled something like the old Tudor castles, is 412 feet long, 228 feet wide, and four stories high. It is constructed of stone from the university quarries to conform with the other buildings of the same material on the campus. In the towers are rooms for the officers of the various companies, and for the minor organizations within the cadet corps; in the basement provision has been made for a rifle range...
...direction of the organization. The instruction will be given by officers of the Army, by military experts who know the requirements which will be demanded from the motorcyclists and can best give them the necessary instruction and training, and by those men who are in close touch with the largest developments in the use of motorcycles in modern warfare and who have had experience in actual service...
Four hundred and one men enlisted in the Spanish war, the largest number of whom were in the First Volunteer Cavalry, the "Rough Riders." The men were in the fiercest fighting, and bore the most desperate hardship in the Santiago campaign. Two prominent graduates of Harvard, Leonard Wood and Theodore Roosevelt, won their promotions in this campaign...