Word: matter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...view of the difficulty which many students have encountered in attempting to reconcile an unusual amount of military work with a normal schedule of courses, the Committee on the Choice of Electives, after a conference on the matter passed a vote yesterday ruling that courses taken in Military Science might replace their equivalent of distribution courses. It was decided, however, that only two full military courses might be counted in this way, and that scientific and language courses allied with war studies must be rated according to the established rules for concentration and distribution, as stated in the University publication...
...Orals are to us, and both are equally hard to get through. Tomorrow the ceremony begins; one by one we file in, take our guess, and leave. The Orals differ from other examinations in they are the only tests for which one cannot prepare. They are merely a matter of imagination, sang-froid and volubility, or what the ball player calls speed, and accuracy of control. Like the same sport, three misses and the candidate is "out" for the rest of the year. We advise a little preparation on the fundamentals and the rest is easy sailing...
...University nine's chief advantage over Yale. That the home team was able to obtain 11 hits off Moore of Princeton, while Yale only made four shows the batting strength of the University players, but whether they will be able to solve Talcott's delivery is a matter of some doubt...
...next year's schedule of training for the University R. O. T. C. will quell any fears in this regard. It is a source of gratification that Harvard's plans for more military work now equal, in the matter of time devoted to drills, the plans at New Haven. It is a source of greater satisfaction that the Harvard Faculty plans next year to increase the effectiveness of the Harvard unit as an officers' training corps...
When the muddle over the aircraft situation gets so bad that there are threats and charges of criminal prosecution, it is time that the matter be taken hold of with a firm hand. Like many other of our war projects, the whole affair is surrounded with a haze of conjecture and uncertainty, but the mists have been cleared away sufficiently to reveal corruption and downright fraud of the worst order. The reports of Mr. Borglum, the special commissioner, and of the Aeronautical Association of America, when added to the recent admission that building was practically at a standstill, leave these...