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Coach Duffy considers that the battery candidates have been coming along in good shape. He feels that so much progress has been made by these men that a firm foundation has been laid for a correspondingly rapid and thorough development of the other positions both infield and outfield...
Fourteen pitcher candidates have reported and among them are several men who have had considerable experience on their school teams. C. B. Crockett, pitcher at St. Mark's for two years, W. B. Rice of Milton's 1918 baseball team, J. O. Pratt of St. George's, along with E. C. Lincoln, now playing hockey, will form the basis of a capable Freshman pitching staff. J. O. Scott of Worcester Academy has given every evidence of ability behind the bat. These men with S. S. Rogers, of Middlesex, and R. P. Parker of Hackley, form a nucleus for the receiving...
...greater than it ever was before. The need for chemical engineers, for marine architects, for men skilled in machine designing, is far beyond the available supply. Hence it is that the current has swung away from the so-termed cultural studies and is heading strongly toward professional training along scientific and technical lines. Boston Herald...
...loves to term "college life." The signing of the armistice last November marked a very low point in the tide of college activities beyond the regular courses. At that time practically every activity which in some degree did not spring from military courses was either non-existent or well along the road to become so. The ink was searcely dry on the armistice papers, however, ere the grim spectre of militarism was promptly forgotten in the eager planning for a speedy return to the ante-bellum order of things. The steady maturing of these hastily made plans is swiftly removing...
...large part of the theoretical and technical part of the education necessary to a successful officer, the practical part of the student's education being reserved for the summer camps. Where colleges desire it, instruction will be given in equitation and horsemanship; and courses on gas engines and tractors along with the theory of traction for mobile artillery...