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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...promote the physical vigor of the undergraduates by keeping alive an unflagging interest in sports. Quite recently, in an address in New York City, M. J. Pickering, graduate manager of athletics at the University of Pennsylvania, justified this policy by attributing its adoption to the outspoken appeal of the student body for participation in various branches of sport in order that they might fit themselves for military service...
Again this year the National Municipal League will offer a prize of $100 called the William H. Baldwin Prize, to be given to the author of the best essay on a subject connected with municipal government. The competition for this award has been opened, as usual, to any undergraduate student registered in a regular course in any college or university in the United States offering direct instruction in municipal government...
...college man who completes the work and is sent to a camp to receive final training, some sort of war degree or certificate will probably be granted. The student in the select course of the scientific school may substitute the R. O. T. C. course for a large part of his work and receive his Ph.B. degree at the end of three years. The Sheffield man taking an engineering or chemical course in college will pursue his technical studies during the R. O. T. C. course and thus prepare for a commission in the Engineers' Reserve Corps...
...work is laid out in three groups designated by letters. "A" subjects, while technical, will have value for the civilian as well as for the soldier. Allied subjects bearing close relation to these will fall under group "B." Thus an R. O. T. C. student may learn to speak French in a course on artillery terms and the language in general; he will be drilled in English composition with a view to gaining facility in writing clear and well-constructed letters, reports and various military documents; he will take work in science which will bear on the firing, signaling...
...HAVEN, CONN., FEB. 12.--In accordance with the request of the Yale student body, through the editorial columns of the Yale News, that the course in military science and tactics at the University be made the hardest course in the college curriculum, the Yale faculty has announced radical changes in the war courses now being given. In the future military studies are to predominate...