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...managers for all the major sport athletic teams. Hitherto the second assistant managers of the baseball and track teams and for the crew have been elected in the spring of each year. Since the Freshmen are taken into most of the fraternities in February, the different societies had grown accustomed to undertake a vigorous campaign to secure the election of their own members. Naturally this led to many abuses and it is to put an end to these, that the new amendment has been formulated...
...country; in other words, men who are qualified to render service in war as well as peace. At present there is actually connected with the University no department in which men are given military training to prepare them for the emergency of war, and a strong feeling has grown up in the University, as it has throughout the entire country, that further steps should be taken in the direction of preparedness...
With the growth of classes Phi Beta Kappa elections become more significant every year, for the percentage from each class becomes smaller. Competition has also grown keener, and hence the honor won by the men whose names are announced this morning is greater than it was in former days. The elections, moreover, have been conducted as fairly as a college grading system will allow, and scholarship has been the only standard. To men who have been busy in College affairs and have also made the Society, this is distinctly added honor; to others it is, of course, an achievement...
Fostered by the tradition of the Union Army in the Civil War, a confident feeling has grown up among the people of this country that a large army could be raised in a short space of time. General McClellan's army of the Potomac in 1862 in trying to advance averaged one mile per day, while one day the whole army retreated five miles to meet its provision train. In 1864 Grant had a body of seasoned men who accomplished something by one kind of fighting...
...teachers of law, and the elevation of standards for the law degree. These achievements have profoundly influenced the legal education of the country. Langdell, Ames, and Thayer are the leading names in this evolution. It will not be easy to find a successor to them, for the position has grown in their hands to one of the foremost magnitude. The Law School enters upon its second century facing a great loss in leadership. May that loss be retrieved, and may be next hundred years in the Law School's history be as full of achievement as the last...