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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...physical examination of Freshman was resumed this fall on the prewar basis. During the war, in spite of the absence of the head of the Department of Hygiene, these examinations were carried out in accordance with army standards and were of great value, in the first place to the army, and in the second place to the students, since both the army and the students could know from these examinations how each individual met the physical requirements of the army...
...28th annual meeting of the American Psychological Association will take place at the. University on December 29, 30 and 31. All of the sessions will be held in Emerson Hall, while the annual dinner and smoker will take place in the Union Tuesday, the second day of the convention. The Boston headquarters of the Association will be the Hotel Bellevue, and arrangements have been made to accommodate the men in the Freshman dormitories, while the women will be housed at Radcliffe College...
...course there are people who howl loudly against even such a proposal. Prussianism! Military life to usurp the place of a happy life! Terrific expense to the Government! Many ejaculations of like nature sum up the arguments of the objectors. As yet the issue has not been placed directly before the country but it probably will be before long. In any event the arguments pro and con will not change appreciably; and the way the fires of disunion are breaking out today, it would not be impossible that people will clamor for universal training in order to protect the country...
Conditions are and would be the reverse in the United States. Instead of a militaristic tradition steeped in imperialism we look back on a democratic past, little troubled by international complications. In place of a system of compulsory military service extending over a period of three years we would have a shorter period founded on a different basis. Where in Germany, that was, and in France men were seized by the Government for three years and compelled to live the life of a professional soldier, the United States would adopt a system more of physical training. Herein, I think lies...
...last regular University Tea before the Christmas recess will take place this afternoon from 4.30 to 6 o'clock in the Parlor of the Phillips Brooks House. The teas will be resumed Friday, January 2, and will continue every Friday afternoon until the beginning of the mid-year examination period...