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...Massachusetts also, the creation of a state police force is being encouraged. The object of the House Bill No. 280 is to perform one of the most basic aims and distinctive functions of the government, namely, the protection of citizens living in the rural districts, where there are at present over 300,000 with totally inadequate police protection. This bill asks that an initial expenditure of $100,000 and an annual sum of $300,000 he provided for the establishment of a police force similar to those in New York and Pennsylvania. When hardly a week passes without the perpetration...
President Charles W. Eliot, the second speaker at the dinner, declared that he had generally thought of himself as a liberal, and as an advocate of mental, social, and religious freedom for everyone. He further stated, as a basic proposition, that the American institutions are safe now and in the longest possible future...
Many think of West Point as a machine for the production of professional soldiers. This betrays ignorance of the facts. While training at the Academy fits men especially for the various phases of the military profession, it has as its basic ideal good citizenship. Besides his study of military affairs, the cadet is instructed in those subjects making for a well-rounded mind, which is the first essential for successful citizenship. The extent of the Point's success in achieving its military purpose, which the report specifies as: "--to give to all cadets a broad conception of all the branches...
...Does the fault lie in the lukewarm reception which is only too frequently given to school and college teams visiting us? Is the Harvard social system so designed that it repeatedly occasions detrimental resentment among a great many undergraduates and benefits but a few, and is this the one basic cause of the trouble...
...matches, one with Cornell and one with Carnegie Tech. The match with Cornell will be the fourth in the National Rifle Association tournament and so the scoring will be an a 500 point basis, while the Carnegie Tech is an outside match and will be on a 1000 point basic. Ten men shoot in each, but in the former only the five highest scores are counted, while all ten scores count in the latter...