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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have realized and accepted the responsibility which rests upon them as the officer material for the military forces of the Nation. Nowhere has this fact been shown more plainly than in the small number of men who have responded to the call for football candidates. At Yale the total number who came out was nine--not men enough for one team, not to mention the necessary sub-elevens. In other colleges this same scarcity of men for major athletics has been constantly experienced...
...member of a unit in Harvard University to make himself physically fit,--to do that is a duty encumbrant upon every man who desires to serve his country most efficiently. It is the physical development of the men in general that is wanted,--not the development of a limited number of supermen, who can attain their superiority only at the expense of their work in the military units...
...military authorities at the University of Pennsylvania have given official sanction to all minor sports, and have also required all members of the S. A. T. C. to spend at least one hour a day in some form of athletics. This requirement has caused the number of football candidates to increase immensely, and has given a fine start to all minor sports. Aside from football, soccer, cross-country and swimming will have the big call at Pennsylvania this year. Douglas Stewart, an old soccer coach at the University, will coach the soccer candidates. Lawson Robertson is coaching a large squad...
...members of the S. A. T. C. must participate in some form of out-door sport. As a result, a large majority of the men chose football, thereby giving that sport a great boost in the college. Baseball received second choice, and tennis, third choice, as shown by the number of men that came out for each...
...under preparation to give them the same sort of discipline. However, many men in the Naval Unit and the Junior S. A. T. C. have been using the upper reading room of Widener Library for study that 50 more seats will now be put in to accommodate the largest number of students Widener has ever seen