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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...subject makes little difference. In learning any one, the student gains knowledge which is essential for winning a commission. The fact that this is a College course may cause men to just pass, and for that reason lose much of its value. continuous work will mean far more than a high grade; it will mean a better chance to secure a lieutenancy. The aim of this training is not scholarship, but preparation to became an officer...
This does not mean we have to rush back to the old system with its numerous faults. We do not need to have coaches drawing enormous salaries, nor advertising campaigns to attract crowds of thousands. We simply desire to play in a contest with teams which are like our own. Baseball and possibly track could be dragged out along informal lines, but to try to have an informal crew would be the heighth of absurdity. Two facts argue strongly for intercollegiate games. The first is that the President of the United States and the leading men of the War Department...
...probable, however, that future schools will instruct more than the present number of cadets. Such an increase here would mean the acquisition of several new buildings, because the present quarters in Holyoke House, Dane and Harvard Halls are already taxed to their capacity...
Finals are not unlike medicine. Nobody likes them, but in the taking they do each of us some much-needed good. To the student they normally mean merely more time spent in digging up knowledge about a given subject. To the faculty man, thinking up a new set of questions presents something of difficulty, and correcting blue books is a thankless task at best...
Furthermore, there will be a new morale (which doesn't mean morals) or a new spirit of efficiency in College. For exactly the same reason that an army camp rises early, the College should arouse itself at least an hour earlier and find itself incalculably better in spirit and efficiency. From a broad and all-seeing standpoint, he is a slacker who votes "no" on daylight-saving, and this we must all conclude and agree on. A. BURROUGHS...