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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that all members of the Corps who applied and who were physically fit and older than 20 years and nine months were, with few exceptions, accepted. Over a hundred others successfully passed the examinations for provisional second lieutenancies in the regular army. The rest of the men, though at present not in the service, are in a position to advance rapidly when they become...
...nation. We cannot longer take refuge behind such terms as 'charity' or 'correction.' We must go to the root of the trouble, and organize society so that a large part of our time and energy will not be wasted in making compensation for sins of omission. Even before the present crisis there were many serious problems to be facade; startling increase in insanity, the commission of crimes, and the rapid multiplication of persons with unstable temperaments and character...
...guide the human machine intelligently, we must study the various parts of the machine and then its activities as expressed in feeling, thinking acting. At present the best opportunities for this line of investigation exist in the medical schools. Over a century ago a great Frenchman declared that medicine should be the basis for all public instruction. It is possible for the medical schools to give modified courses to students of social phenomena...
...effect of the war on athletic organizations is well seen in the present activities of the eleven members of the University football team which lined up against Yale last fall for the final test of the season. In fact this team is now a United States team, for every member has entered some branch of military service or ambulance work. Reading down the line-up from right end, which position was filled by R. Harte '17, the first man on the list, is at Plattsburgh. G. C. Caner '17, right tackle, is with the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Service somewhere...
...course of lectures of special interest to the general public and to teachers of history in schools will be given by members of the Department of History and by the visiting French officers. These lectures will be entitled "Historical Aspects of the Present War," and for the convenience of the largest possible public they will be given late in the afternoon in the New Lecture Hall. Professor Haskins will have the opening lecture on "The War and the Teacher"; Professor A. C. Coolidge will give ten lectures on "The Historical Antecedents of the War"; Colonel Azan and other officers will...