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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...series of five lectures on popular medical subjects by eminent physicians will be held in the Union. These talks will include discussion of the care of the body and prevention of disease, from the standpoint of the average man. They will not be technical, but will deal in a plain straightforward way with the various problems which confront the individual in every-day life...
...highest and most authoritative standard possible within the field indicated. The preliminary statement of the new quarterly expresses the hope that "'The Military Historian and Economist' will appeal not merely to army and navy officers anxious to keep abreast with the theory of their profession, but to the plain man of business who realizes that the isolation of this country has gone forever, that the clash of armies is merely the most violent incident of increasingly sharp trade competition, and that modern doctrines of the conduct of war repose largely on economic foundations...
Henry Hoyt Carpenter, of Jamaica Plain...
Although not much can be judged from a single week's drill in fundamentals, it is plain that the Freshman line will be a light one. V.N.H. Bates, C. A. Clark, E. S. Brewer, and M. Phinney have done good work in this department, but it has been found expedient to move several of the heavier backs...
Essays must not exceed 5,000 words (a length of 3,000 words is suggested as desirable) and must be written, preferably in typewriting, on one side only of plain paper of ordinary letter size (8 by 10 1-2 inches). Manuscripts not easily legible will not be considered...