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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Moore '93 has said that if the Freshman rifle team proves successful he will favor the awarding of rifle team numerals to its members. The marksmen have now begun practising on the 75-foot range, and every candidate for the Freshman or upperclass teams is required to shoot at least three targets each week...
...largest question," said President Maclaurin, "is undoubtedly that of our future relations with Harvard. Both institutions have a great record of achievement, Harvard incomparably the greater if we survey the whole field of education, but not greater in the particular field that the Institute has cultivated. Each institution is strong enough to play an independent part, and there will doubtless be some who will advocate that course...
...need of reality, independence and old-fashioned devotion was emphasized by Mr. Eddy in his remarks. "We must have reality of faith, conviction that the hand of God has marked out a path for us to follow," he said. "We cannot tell what may happen. It is even conceivable that we may lose this war, and that is a thing for you to ponder well. Yet even so, great things have come from periods of loss, of chaos and of defeat...
Introducing the course of training offered by the Wentworth Institute, President Williston said that its curriculum, although primarily one of peace-arts, was especially adaptable to trench-warfare. The instruction will be divided into six groups: the study of mass and reinforced concrete construction, timber instruction, laboratory instruction in testing the strength of materials, the rigging of lifting apparatus and the handling of heavy materials, electricity as applied to military tactics, and a study of hydraulics...
Professor Atwood said that the topographical course would aim to supplement last summer's R.O.T.C. work, and would be conducted by himself and Professors H. L. Smyth '83 and R. DeC. Ward. Professor Smyth will deliver five lectures on the fine technical points of map-drawing and will conduct one field exercise. The latter will consist of taking an ordinary map of Cambridge and filling in the points of special military importance...