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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...meeting has been arranged between the representatives of the Athletic Committees of the University, Yale, and Princeton, and will take place at the Harvard Club of New York City, at 4.30 o'clock next Tuesday afternoon, February 4. The object of this meeting is to discuss the present situation in the different branches of intercollegiate sport. Professor R. B. Merriman '96, the Athletic Chairman of the University will be the Harvard representative on this occasion...
...class work, practice with four British 75's and other pieces, and training in horsemanship. A great number of guns, 90 horses, 16 non-commissioned officers and 36 privates will be detailed by the Government for each unit of 200 men recruited in the Princeton Unit. The ultimate object is to form a battalion. Major J. E. McMahon, former instructor at West Point and Camp Taylor will be Commandant of the Unit...
...decided, but for the present plans are under way to accommodate as many men as possible in Randolph Gymnasium. It is hoped to start again this year the daily informal gymnasium class which proved such a success last year. Attendance at the class is to be entirely voluntary, the object being to give recreation and exercise to those members of the University who wish it. It will meet daily at five o'clock...
...latest and strongest of these efforts has been the projected contest between Harvard and Princeton for the benefit of the United War Workers' drive. But, worthy as the object of such a game would be, the University has very rightly-placed its stamp of disapproval upon the scheme...
...This new policy aims to accomplish a two-fold object: first, to develop as a great military asset the large body of young men in the colleges; and second, to prevent unnecessary and wasteful depletion of the colleges through indiscriminate volunteering, by offering to the students a definite and immediate military status...