Word: spoke
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...yesterday's meeting, Coach Haines spoke briefly to the candidates, telling the plans for fall competitions as far as they are yet formed. "War has shown athletes to be the most desirable officers," he said, "and therefore it is our duty to train more of them." Of all the athletic activities offered this fall by the University, there can be no doubt that crew is the most beneficial, and the most interesting...
Professor M. A. Abbott, of Yale, at a recent banquet at the Yale Club in New York, described the progress of the Naval Training Unit established at that university this winter. In claiming for Yale the first collegiate naval training course he spoke as follows...
...namely, the Cheney-Ives Gateway, the Miller Gateway, and the Ledyard Flagstaff. The procession will end up in the university Quadrangle between Woodbridge Hall and the Dining Hall, where patriotic songs will be sung and two addresses delivered from the balcony of Memorial Hall, from which President Taft spoke on his return to New Haven. These addresses will be delivered by George R. Vincent, 1885, President of the University of Minnesota and president-elect of the Rockefeller Foundation, and by Captain R. M. Danford, U. S. A., who has been in charge of the Yale...
...enthusiastic meeting held last night in the Cruft Laboratory for men interested in signal corps work, Captain C. E. Russell, of the United States Signal Corps, emphasized the vital need for college men in this branch of the service. He spoke of the nature of the signal corps work and explained the details of the reserve battalion that he is now forming. Twenty-two members of the University enlisted last night, and with this number Captain Russell will form a nucleus for a signal corps class here. He will also detail an army officer to carry on the work. Professor...
President Lowell, who spoke after Dean Yeomans, laid stress upon the need of team-play, and the development of morale. "This morale of the army," he said, "depends upon the character of its officers. And character cannot be developed in a moment. It comes through a life of right thinking and right doing, through the exercise of patience and self-control. To accomplish this end, all training is vital. Without training there can be no officers, and the army will be an unready mob to be slaughtered like sheep...