Word: views
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...expresses the fear that the humdrum of mere drilling may disgust men with a work in reality interesting. The organizers of the Regiment have taken the position that, on the contrary, winter drill would increase interest in military matters and the attendance at summer camps. This is the view with which General Wood is supporting the movement for establishing companies in the colleges. The attendance at the camps next summer will provide a test. In the meantime, President Lowell's warning should be heard by any man whose enthusiasm is warning...
...doubtful efficacy, are a step in the same direction. And President Lowell suggests in his Report that the departments should supervise the work of men concentrating in their respective fields, whether they are candidates for distinction or not. "All these changes are in a direction away from the mechanical view of education which is the bane of the American system...
...Fogg Art Museum at 4.30 o'clock. At the same time Professor R. M. Johnston will lecture on "The French Railroads during the War of 1870-71" in Emerson A. Professor H. C. Biedwirth '84 will address the Modern Language Conference on "Preparedness" and 'Efficiency' from the Point of View of a Teacher of Elementary German," in the common room of Conant Hall this evening at 8 o'clock...
...last few years and they tend to make of the University museum a place of pilgrimage for lovers of good painting. In this instance, the exhibition has been arranged for the special use of students of Spanish art, but it should, for the two weeks it is on view, receive the attention of the University at large and the outside public...
...championship Cornell track squad, with an abundance of good material on hand, has started its campaign to capture the 1916 intercollegiate honors. The chief objects in view at present are the relay games of the B. A. A. on February 5, one or two other meets, and the big indoor carnival to be held by the I. C. A. A. A. A. in New York on March 4; but Coach Moakley has begun the process of sorting out his best men for the various events to be contested in the championship games next spring...