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...Bowdoin Prizes established by Governor James Bowdoin of the class of 1745 and increased by G. S. Bowdoin in 1901, are given for dissertations in English, Greek and Latin. The English prizes are three, one first prize of two hundred and fifty dollars, and two second prizes of one hundred dollars each...
...Field Artillery Unit, is a big step toward universal military service, and I strongly support any advance in that direction. I believe that every boy should be given training during his nineteenth year. This compulsory service would not last more than one year, and therefore would not be long enough to have a militaristic influence over our youth. The splendid record of the 26th Division has shown that one year of well applied training is sufficient to make a good soldier out of the average man. The training would be entirely under the control of the government, and would normally...
...attribute our advances to the institutions under which we live, then we must be ready to uphold those institutions for what the advances are worth. Preparedness to defend with arms is the natural complement to ability to promote with judgment and foresight, and the man who develops the one at the expense of the other, the man who builds up a beautiful country without providing for its security, evidences a surprising lack of that judgment and foresight he aimed to cultivate...
...periods by governmental requirements last autumn, subsequent events have chanced to distinguish each term as different from the others. The greater part of last fall was passed in energetic preparation for war service. The soldier-student was the ordinary, the civilian student the extraordinary. The second term was essentially one of transition. The uniform gradually became less and less familiar. Those forms of college activities which the war has effectively stopped were in process of reorganization...
...large gifts have been made to the University lately. One is an anonymous donation of $50,000 for the establishment of the James C. Melvin Fund for tropical medicine. Its income is to be applied for the furtherance of preventive medicine, if that phase of medical research should be taken up at the University Medical School...