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...recent action along the Italian front, however, is a more substantial cause for cheerfulness. A few months ago a succession of reverses along the Tagliamento resulted in much pessimism in regard to Italy's fighting powers. French and English aid had to be rushed to the assistance of their faltering allies. Whether or not this has been the driving force in the recent captures makes little difference. The important point is that the Austrian Army is being repulsed on that front where it seemed to have secured the ascendency. The struggle for the Plave region far more than strikes...
...special committees to suggest improvements for the R. O. T. C., to investigate non-essential extra-curriculum activities, and to provide means for making a more efficient military organization. Motions have also been passed by the Council to the effect that the councils recommend a concentration of the undergraduates along military lines; that they take a stand in favor of undergraduates remaining in the university to complete their training; and that they encourage the placing of artillery training corps in preparatory schools. The council has also agreed to co-operate in maintaining discipline in the military organizations at Yale...
...instruction will be conducted along the same lines as that of the 1917 R. O. T. C. At first, candidates will learn the different thrusts and parries, using ordinary rifles. Later, the men, protected by bodyguards and masks, will oppose each other with wooden wands and spring bayonets...
...College, as elsewhere, the outbreak of war dwarfed all other events of the year. The College work had, however, been hampered earlier by two incidents which, in ordinary times, would be regarded as serious,--namely, the epidemic of infantile paralysis along the Atlantic Coast and the military service of many of our students on the Mexican Border. Several colleges retarded their opening because of the epidemic. It is a satisfaction to report that the decision of the Harvard authorities to open on time, made after careful deliberation and upon expert advice, was vindicated. Only one student contracted poliomyelitis throughout...
...Dudley A Sargent, director of physical education at the University, created a sensation at the annual meeting of the Athletic Research Society at the Hotel Astor, New York, on December 27, when he declared that for the past 25 years both Harvard and Yale have conducted their athletic training along the wrong lines. He said that he was proud of the athletes who have been sent into the Army, but that he was not proud of many more who have been sent but who are not physically fit, giving as the reason for this the fact that the colleges have...