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General Wood stated that the work of the Regiment so far has been eminently satisfactory. In establishing military training as a course counting toward a degree, the University is the first to adopt a policy which will ultimately be recognized in every other college. Yale, Dartmouth, and Williams have formed strong student military organizations, and the present plan to recruit a corps of 50,000 officers will most likely be carried through successfully...
...wording of the subject for the triangular debate between Yale, Princeton and the University has just been submitted by Yale and reads as follows: Resolved, That the United States should adopt a system of compulsory military service modelled after that of Switzerland. The question was chosen by the University and worded by the Yale debaters. It should be noticed that the subject concerns Switzerland and not Sweden as had wrongly been stated...
...Spanish-American History and Economics, stated in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday that an exchange of professors between Harvard and the South American Universities is highly desirable and that it would be a great advantage if Harvard were the first university in the United States to adopt this plan, which he considers inevitable...
...step the University is contemplating the issue of an edition of the regular catalogue in Spanish for distribution in Latin America. But the University's greatest chance to rise rapidly in reputation and position among the South Americans lies in being the first institution of the United States to adopt the plan of regular inter-American professorial exchanges...
...involves a revolutionary principle. Carried to its logical conclusion it would involve the abolition of all intercollegiate sports. As the system stands the incentive of a Freshman game with Yale is probably essential to the greatest competitive development of future University players. The idea of persuading our competitors to adopt with us the "Andover plan,"--whereby all would develop their teams through intramural games,--is more promising. But, in case they will not agree, the remaining alternative is to adapt the present system to interdormitory needs. And in the first place, a return to the former longer schedules, with...