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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...plan has received the personal attention of General Danford, Field Artillery Chief, who has placed Colonel Beard in command. As in past years the Government provides uniforms, and all other equipment, together with free riding facilities for the men. Provision will be made for work this summer at one of the army firing centres, but summer work will not be compulsory this year...
...fosters an undesirable spirit of professionalism, of training a few men to a very high degree that they might go through a successful season. This, as Dean Briggs implies, is the natural outcome of paying a coach for the single purpose of shaping a winning team. The day is past when athletics could be viewed by the authorities as a necessary evil. Is it not likely that closer co-operation with the officers of the University would eliminate the narrowness of the "winning team" system and offer us the "more sport and better sport" which we have so anxiously desired...
...past few months have witnessed the rapid spread of a movement among the industrial classes of Europe and America which threatens to undermine the very foundations of society and whose tenets run directly counter to those of a well ordered and peaceful democracy. The question of the hour with regard to what is known journalistically as "Bolshevism" is: where did it come from and whither does it tend...
...system will be eradicated when intercollegiate contests are resumed. The whole array of paid coaches, trainers, scouts, and other attendants ought to be cut down considerably and the number of games which involve travelling might well be reduced. These things have made college athletics unduly expensive in the past and have given all college sport the taint of semi-professionalism. If the system is not to be reformed, it should at least be improved. Boston Herald...
That the summer R. O. T. C. Camps maintained solely by the University, and all other camps of a similar nature are things of the past, is apparent from the announcement just made by the Committee on Education and Special Training of the War Department. According to the present plans special manoeuvres for each R. O. T. C. Unit will be held under the direction of the Government during the coming summer, and in the future all R. O. T. C. Unit will co-operate much more closely with the War Department...