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...American universities are beginning to suffer from the effects of war. Princeton, Pennsylvania and Rutgers have all reported deficits due to decreased enrolments. They are not the only ones in this situation, for practically all American colleges have lost a large percentage of its students. upon whom they depend for much of their income. These three cases show the burden which is upon all colleges. So long as the war continues this tendency, accentuated by further reductions in enrolments, is due to become more widespread and disturbing...
Plans for the spring, however, will depend largely on the interest shown this winter. All candidates for the Freshman or upper-class teams will shoot three or more targets a week at the Bay State Rifle Range, near the Boston Arena, and turn the three highest scores in to the range office files. Such practice will continue until a sufficiently capable marksman can be chosen captain, when a different system may be initiated...
Changed methods of warfare and German thoroughness make such a trap improbable. Charles XII and Napoleon lived on the land through which they passed; but Hindenburg's army would have to depend on a base of supplies well in the rear. For this reason, the line of communications is not so apt to be neglected as in former campaigns. The Teutons have followed their advances by an adequate and efficient system of railways. Furthermore, the large number of forces involved renders impossible a separate incursion involving only a small portion of the troops. Security demands that no section...
Those men who now are preparing for their departure to fight the enemy which desolates France, keep with them the responsibility of those non-combattants who at home depend on them for existence. In no surer way may a soldier consign his property to his dependents than in Government bonds. In so doing he insures them against the dangers of illy-invested capital and the waste of non-productive capital. In so doing he also in a way lays odds on his own strength of heart and arm and the strength of those hundreds of thousands...
Lieutenant Ross, U. S. A., representing the War Department, will be in Cambridge today and tomorrow for the purpose of officially inspecting the Reserve Officers' Training Corps of the University. Upon the report which he will make to the authorities at Washington will depend in large measure the rating which the Corps will receive from the War Department...