Word: said
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...been frequently argued that each individual should have the right to judge whether there might not be some excellent reason for his not joining a college training unit. Such a man, it was said, should not be deprived of the privilege of athletic competition when he was preparing himself for service other than military. The answer to this theorem is a perfectly logical one; it is impossible to distinguish between patriots and slackers. No undergraduate or graduate wants to see the University represented by any man who is not doing his utmost toward his future usefulness...
...Fourmestraux, of the French Army, visited the University on Wednesday, before proceeding on his journey to Princeton, where he will take command of the advanced training of the R. O. T. C. unit. "I am very pleasantly impressed with what little I have seen of the Harvard Corps," he said, when interviewed by a CRIMSON reporter. "I am sorry that I can not stay longer, but I shall return again to visit in the spring. I have heard much about the Harvard Training Corps while in France, and am anxious to see the men at drill...
...Lieutenant said, also, that he hoped to have the work at Princeton follow closely along the lines of that undertaken with such success here at the University during the past year...
...thing, it took the war to bring the sailor into his own. "I am surprised to find," said a kindly gentleman down in the Square to us the other day, "that your men are gentlemen." He shouldn't have been surprised; but he was just another victim of popular report. Like countless others, he thought sailors were instinctively rowdies, that the uniform was the signal for a rough-house, and that he had better nail everything down that was laying around loose...
...simple and inexpensive scale. It is most probable that during the coming week a meeting of the H. A. A. will be held to decide upon the practical points of the spring athletics at the University. In a conversation with a CRIMSON reporter last night Dean Briggs said: "We do not wish it to be thought that we regret our attitude toward football last fall. Not at all. But now that the R. O. T. C. is firmly on its feet, I think that a somewhat formal system of athletics may once more be employed...