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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...total of 253 out of the possible 300 is necessary to secure ranking as expert rifleman; 238 is needed for the grade of sharpshooter, and 202 for that of marksman. A first class man is one who shoots at least 177, and a second class man 152; men shooting lower than that number are unqualified...
...ordinary competitive speculation. The manuals on economics explain them. Usually listed are the following: (1) Speculators create time values, carrying wheat over from a period of abundance to a period of scarcity; (2) Speculators level prices through the year, giving higher prices to farmers at harvest time, and lower prices to consumers later. (That this second point is not a matter of closet theory is abundantly shown by J. E. Pope, in an article in the Harvard Quarterly Journal of Economics of August, 1916). The speculator has failed to do it during the current crop year, for reasons above indicated...
...which will celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary, is the only class that has made definite arrangements for festivities this year in Cambridge, but many of the other classes will undoubtedly return for Commencement and march in the parade of graduates to the Stadium. All the members of the three lower classes who are in the R. O. T. C. will also be in Cambridge during graduation week and a general exodus of men will not result...
...faculty of Brown University has voted to give credit to all seniors who may leave college because of enlistment in the army or navy, or to enter training camps. Credit will also be given base upon recommendation of the Committee on Registration and Attendance, to members of the three lower classes who enlist in any military or naval organization and as a necessary consequence of such enlistment are called away from their college duties. Many members of the Brown Battalion, which includes most of the 800 undergraduates who have not already enlisted in some extra-collegiate military or naval organization...
...other hand, scattered colleges throughout the country have made known their intentions of continuing their programs. West Point and Annapolis will carry out their schedules in spite of the early graduation of the senior class, made necessary by the declaration of war. The men in the lower classes of these institutions are not allowed to leave them to take part in military service, and consequently athletic competition will be encouraged. The authorities at Pennsylvania have decided that participation in intercollegiate sports will not be abandoned there...