Word: specializing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...been announced by the Phillips Brooks House Association that the Harvard Mission has been reorganized, and will take up its work on a new basis. This organization has formerly supported many University men in the mission field, but owing to the present needs, it will this year place special emphasis on reconstruction work, while going on with its pre-war duties at the same time...
...great success of the Haughton system did not begin until the following year when Yale was defeated 20-0. By building up his team on some special player or some powerful play. Haughton turned out championship teams for the next three years, beating Yale by scores of 15-5 in 1913, 36-0 in 1914, and 41-0 in 1915, which was the greatest defeat ever suffered by Yale at the hands of the University...
...examined for the army, 271 were unfit for military service. In the 26th Division we had many cases of flat feet which made the men useless for hard military work. At the advice of one of my colonels who was an orthopedic specialist, these men were organized into a special training batalion. In eight weeks, 80 per cent of these supposedly unfit men were made physically sound and able to go on the hardest 20 mile hikes. This was the first of the 'development battalions' which later did so much to improve the physique of our boys...
...other bequest is the residuary estate of Horace Fletcher, the expert dietician. The income is to be used to "foster knowledge of healthful nutrition." The will also provided for an annual award to be known as the "Horace Fletcher Prize" for the best thesis on the subject "special uses of circumvallate papillae and the saliva of the mouth in regulating physiological economy and nutrition...
President Eliot is quietly celebrating his 85th birthday in his home in Cambridge today. As in other years, he will pass the day without any special program...