Word: major
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...college and sheff., annually chosen by those faculties and eight graduates or undergraduates at large, to be annually chosen by the corporation, are to form a Board of Control which shall have charge of all Yale athletics. This Board of Control, with the captains and managers of the four major sports, and two representatives of general sports, are to form the new Association. By this method, the captains not only belong to the general Association, but are represented by their choice of graduates in the Board of Control; the faculty is represented by its own choice of faculty members...
...anonymous graduates are arranging to send to each member of the Freshman Class a copy of a book containing four essays on college life. The first of these is "Soldiers' Field," the address made by Major Henry Lee Higginson '55 at the dedication of the University's present athletic field; then follows a selection from the essay "Habit," by the late Professor William James '69 in which the necessity of habits without exceptions is emphasized. The other two selections are Dean Briggs' "Mistakes of College Life" and the Phi Beta Kappa poem of 1903, "Mater Fortissima." These little books will...
...Engineer Corps of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which was first established last year, will be reorganized at a meeting Friday afternoon. Major Cole and Captain Downing, of the United States Corps of Engineers, will be on hand to explain this year's plans. Last year the corps was somewhat hampered by lack of sufficient equipment, which now will be furnished by the government, enabling the corps to perform the same service as that demanded of the army engineers...
...Major General David Douglas Hugh '92, of the Massachusetts Militia, also addressed the meeting and, he using the University's military record, also appealed to those present. He emphasized strongly the disastrous results of indifference to our present needs and quoted the instance of the Brandenbergs to prove his statements. "You read the daily papers now with the accounts of what our boys are doing down on the border and the whole thing seems to be one continuous, serial bellyache. I don't know whether these stories are all true or not, but if even a portion of them...
...Lecture Hall today at 1.30 o'clock. Captain Cordier will explain in full all matters relating to the course and will outline plans for the reorganization of the Harvard Regiment according to War Department regulations. If he is able to reach Cambridge in time for the meeting, Major Henry Lee Higginson '55 will also speak. All members of the Regiment last year, those who have already enrolled in the course and all men interested in military training of any sort are invited to be present...