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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Columbia all dormitories have been converted into barracks and the registration there will probably be the cause of the largest registration the university ever had. Besides the regular military work, Columbia has set itself the task of training skilled engineers in a two-year course. The new course will take up all branches of engineering and will be open to students with the customary high school education. Naturally it will run through the four quarters of the year. Under the present arrangements the new engineers will be given a special status with the regular...
...have already applied for a Central Officers' Training Camp will be inducted in the S. A. T. C. on the date set for induction. The applications will be considered and the applicants examined by the military authorities here, and the names of the successful applicants sent to the commanding officers of the respective camps. These men will be called when needed, and a transfer will be effected...
...corridor lined with photographs, four rows deep of graduates and students killed in this war. When one goes the provost writes a letter of sympathy and asks for the photograph. All are framed alike. This is a suggestion. Perhaps Harvard has a better scheme." The Roll of Honor recently set up is not a better, but merely another scheme; and one does not exclude the other. While the number of our dead is still comparatively small, would it not be well to adopt the London plan, and begin at once to place the pictures of the men on the Honor...
...teams. The wearing of the full "H" not only classes a man as one of the best of seven, or eight, or nine, or eleven men in a particular form of athletics at a particular time, but it denotes an athlete. No standard of athletic ability can be set, but in general it would be inopportune to give the letter to the members of this year's teams. Not only would it misrepresent them, but it would not be fair by comparison to the men who have won the "H" regularly in past seasons...
...formed a trio which served as an excellent nucleus for the war-time crew. No training table was instituted, but as rigid a system of training as was practicable was instituted and an effort was made to put the crew work on a firm basis which should set a precedent for the continuation of rowing during...