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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...firmly convinced that the system of universal military training and service now in force in Switzerland should be applied in the United States to supersede its present system of a regular standing army, reserves and militia," said President Eliot, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday afternoon. "I believe that such a system should be put into force at once as soon as Congress can pass the necessary legislation. We should not wait until the end of the war in the meantime fighting Germany with our present military organizations, but we should immediately establish a system such...
...Under our present system, at the close of the war, we will not have an army; nor will England and France, already drained by almost three and a half years of war, have one. Yet we have undertaken to free Belgium, Poland and Roumania and to become one of the members of a league to enforce peace. How can we enforce peace or bring about a lasting freedom for those countries if we do not have an adequate army? If we should adopt the Swiss system we would have a large citizen army which could be called into action...
...Coach Donovan took charge of all the runners, sending them at an easy jog around the Stadium fence. The jumpers and weight-throwers were given a workout in the baseball cage under the direction of Coach Farrell. This division of the coaching staff will be followed daily for the present. As soon as the laying of the board track, which is now under way, has been completed, all the runners will practice there...
...seems sure that the Association will pass these resolutions. We can only congratulate the fathers of the plans on their timely sagacity. National crises can work wonders in most things. The present war seems about to effect a marvellous change in collegiate athletics...
Captain W. Channing, Jr., U.S.R., will meet the cadet officers and non-commissioned officers in the baseball cage Thursday and Friday afternoons, December 6 and 7, at 2.30 for purposes of instruction in the Koehler setting up exercises, pages 68-85. All officers should be present on one or the other of these days. R. G. FULLER, Captain, R. O. T. C., Regimental Adjutant...