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Membership in the Aeronautical Society is open to all students of the University, and any men who are interested in aviation and would like to join should leave their names at Weld 2 any time within the next week. The members of the Society have opportunity to make trips to various aeroplane factories, hear many interesting lectures on aeronautics, and use the Society's glider. The annual membership...
Theodore Roosevelt found Harvard a place where a man thinks for himself because he has some knowledge of what other men have thought for themselves Throughout his life he was a great reader, and what is more a tenacious reader, who liked to break in on other people's specialities with some fresh illumination. He wrote books, many and to the point. In his last years he practiced the art of the journalist, through systematic and incisive articles. Few of the sons of Harvard in the last forty years have left so high or so enduring a monument of literary...
...enormous effect upon public life of a man who was for years the foremost in the nation, on the honor of public service. He smashed the conventional ways of thinking and doing, he ignored the maxims of the professional politician, he thought that nations could be carried on like families, with consideration for others, with safeguard of the interests of posterity, with honesty and openness of dealing...
Three essential qualifications must govern our new army says President Eliot in an article in the Boston Herald, First, it should be clearly a national force, like the recently enlisted national army, and neither a class force like the national guard nor a body of professional soldiers like the former regular army. In the second place, the large military force which the United States must maintain should be a democratic as well as a national army. That the regular army never was. Thirdly, there is only one principle on which a force of this character can be constructed...
...enormous value and practicability speak for themselves. The important fact is that schedules are offered for both graduates and undergraduates. From this time on the possessor of the University's B.S. degree will have a higher standing, while men holding degrees of Mining Engineer, Doctor of Science and the like will be in as great demand throughout the country as are the honor men at the Law School. The Engineering School opens at a most auspicious time; may its success be unsurpassed...