Word: pointings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...those who show the disposition to attend. This organization will last through the summer session here, and will be entirely voluntary for the students, in no way compelling attendance in the Field Artillery Unit next fall. Major Miller hopes to advance the instruction in this class to the point of training the students in jumping horses and playing polo. He excepts to leave shortly for Camp Devens where he will select the horses to be used this summer and next winter...
...University infield made many mistakes in judgment, in addition to the misplays recorded in the box-score. J. L. Knowles '19, in left field, with five putouts to his credit, including a spectacular catch in the third inning, was the strongest point in the University defense...
...help, the main test lies with the student himself." He then went on to say that statistics compiled by the faculty have shown that the attainment of scholarship in the Graduate Schools corresponds directly with that obtained by men while undergraduates in the University. President Lowell ended by pointing out that if a man puts his best into his studies and also into his outside activities the former will take less tme, and will increase in standard, while the latter will be much to develop him and broaden his point of view...
...Holbrook, in "Taps for the Old Army," proposes to ensure adequate officers for a new army, and at the same time to avoid militarism, by making West Point exclusively a school for reserve officers who desire, to continue their military career after having won commission in the various R. O. T C.'s. Mr. Holbrook is probably too sanguine; no education has yet been discovered which will render weak human nature proof against the possession of power. It is, moreover, impossible to "leave out of consideration the question of the enlisted men." But the discussion of this and kindred topics...
...Crimson oarsmen jumped into a slight lead at the start, and then settled down to a steady stroke that drew them rapidly ahead of their opponents. At three quarters of a mile the University class crew led by two lengths, and increased this advantage quickly until at the mile point it had two more lengths of open water to its advantage. Here Kent broke his oar and the Blue eight paddled the remainder of the mile and five-sixteenths course with seven sweeps in use. Near the finish Galt of Yale also cracked his blade, but continued rowing...