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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Blaine '17, and C. A. Coolidge, Jr., 17, testified before Senator Chamberlain's sub-committee on military affairs here this morning on the attitude of the University towards universal military training. Blaine sketched the history of the Harvard Regiment and reported the result of yesterday's straw ballot. He said that from his experience at Plattsburg he was convinced that universal military training was the only logical policy and concluded his testimony with the statement that the sentiment of the University seemed to be that "the responsibilities of life are more important than life itself...
...Reports from Western cities indicate a movement to introduce professional football on a large scale East and West next season. It is said that certain major league magnates are considering a plan to employ their ball parks for football and to back the game financially, Professional football was played on Navin Field--the American Association grounds--in Detroit, last fall, and an agent of the Club is reported to have been in Chicago recently to enlist support for his undertaking from owners of major league clubs there. From Columbus and Indianapolis come reports of the impending formation of a professional...
...Bacon said, "Reading maketh a full man"--the Advocate should beware how it may increase its bulk, for, in an issue like the present, "padding" with "ads" would be like offering a supply of tooth-picks to a starving nation...
...purely technical point of view. He showed that one of our greatest problems was that of concentrating effective bodies of troops in a short space of time. At present the transportation facilities of our railroads are entirely inadequate for such an emergency. In regard to the Chamberlain Bill he said that it provided for an enormous mass of semi-trained men without an adequate force of officers to properly direct the unmanageable numbers. It would be axactly like building a house and then constructing the scaffolding afterwards...
...wanted to make a dirty little infidel out of my child," said Sunday, "I'd send him to one of these universities where they keep the Bible out of the curriculum. If the young men of Harvard had the least bit of encouragement, they'd be swept into the Kingdom like doves. There was once a great revival at Yale. Will it come at Harvard...