Word: term
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...constant possibility of war in the countries of Europe renders military training compulsory, and a term of service in the army is as necessary as a common school education. This is the more noticeable to us, as the United States having no warlike neighbors and being protected by vast oceans, requires no military discipline in her schools and colleges. The great strength of Germany is entirely due to this system; the result is that a knowledge of military tactics is general. In France the training schools are so arranged that comparatively few attain high rank and proficiency in the army...
...after entering the ranks any one wishes to attain some commission, an examination must first be passed; but if he has previously acquitted himself creditably at a preparatory military school, he may be promoted without being examined. After a fixed term of service the aspirant is then advanced to a higher division, where his military education is completed. If satisfactory he is promoted and finally receives his coveted commission. But if the officer is now especially ambitious, there is one more school where the highest positions in the service are awarded. The interest that the government takes in the training...
...chapel of the University of Pennsylvania was filled this morning with a mostly crowd of students dressed in knickerbockers and canvas jackets, eagerly awaiting the announcements of the term averages and the annual bowl-fight that was immediately to follow. The sophomores had on the grounds a ponderous wooden bowl about 2 1-2 feet in diameter and fully 2 inches thick, strongly dovetailed to resist the most powerful efforts of the freshmen to break it. The object of the sophomores in this annual fight is to put the last honor man of the freshman class into the bowl, while...
...only applause they could give was clapping, which, at best, is not very inspiring, The rousing "Rah! rah! rah!" seems to be fast getting into disuse among the students, and it seems unfortunate, to say the least. There has been hardly any genuine cheering in the yard this term, and there is danger that it may become a lost art among...
...seems strange that a college man during term time should compete in any athletic games, at a place so near Cambridge as Boston, as a member of any other association than the H. A. A. or if the club giving the sports. Either he must be ashamed of his college or the game he is contending in; or else he thinks that to enter as a member of some other club gives him an air of importance. It certainly is no more conspicuous to enter as a member of one club rather than another. If he is ashamed...