Word: nears
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...general outline of training is most attractive. Three weeks at Cambridge and three weeks at a site near Camp Devens is the present schedule. The first half will consist of drilling in the fundamentals and the last half will resemble the camp at Barre last year. Lieutenant Morize will be in charge of the exercises and he will have as assistants the instructors of all branches of the service now working at Devens. As an added asset, the Military Office has asked for five West Point cadets to aid in the training and to teach the U. S. Army discipline...
...that the time for adding to our string of victories has again come. We welcome Yale as our guests. With many of our best men leaving next week for Government service, today's contest affords the undergraduate the one big game of the season. At no time in the near future will intercollegiate athletics be on as high a plane as now. Where today our team already feels the loss of many, next week will see a considerable decrease in its strength,. Let everyone, therefore, take this opportunity of attending a game, which is not only a Yale-Harvard game...
...Navy Appropriation Bill which has passed the House of Representatives provides for increasing the strength of the Marine Corps from 30,000 to 75,500 men. If it passes the Senate, as it probably will in the near future, there will be a need for at least 1,800 new first and second lieutenants...
With but $7,150 needed to meet the College quota of $30,000 it now appears that the undergraduates should far exceed that amount if all the classes do their share and succeed in at least reaching "the top". The necessary daily average has now fallen from near $5,000 to a sum of about...
Harvard leaves a wife and a young son, Peter. His younger brother, Kenneth, was killed in the British advance near Ypres last August...