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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...American Red Cross enrolments is due tonight. Thus far the amount collected has been surprisingly and disgracefully small. Possibly men do not fully realize that they are contributing to an American institution; that the service is primarily for this country; that in proportion to our population we have hitherto had the smallest Red Cross in the world, and that, in time of war, the Red Cross is as indispensible to an army as ammunition is for its guns. One cannot advocate preparedness and at the same time overlook the importance of the Red Cross...
...Hitherto, Yale athletics have been conducted and managed by the undergraduates, with such graduate assistance as from time to time was available or seemed desirable to the respective undergraduates in charge. The advice of the older men has been accepted or rejected as seemed best to the particular undergraduates involved. At times serious mistakes and misunderstandings have resulted, occasioning injury to Yale's name in the conduct of its athletic relations with other institutions. It has become increasingly evident that with the ever-changing nature of such control, as men pass from the college world to be succeeded by others...
Professor Pickering, of the Harvard Observatory, an expert and renowned man of science, denounces the "daylight saving" trick with the clock as a foolish and useless fiction. His opinion will have great weight and will carry conviction to the many who have hitherto regarded the scheme as a more or less successful plan to fool Mother Nature and her children at the same time...
...With the opening of the war came the suggestion that, instead of entrusting the training of our students to the summer camps, as had hitherto been thought wise, colleges and universities should introduce physical drill into the academic year. The movement was not encouraged by the military" authorities upon whose advice Princeton most confidentially relied. Their opinion confirmed our own, that such a movement could only be temporary; that as soon as the excitement had passed, the military training corps in the colleges and universities would cease to hold their student volunteers. We had ourselves tried the experiment...
...plan for electing the Rhodes Scholars from the United States for 1916 will go into effect next October, when the examinations will be held. Hitherto scholars have been elected in all the states of the Union in two successive years, but in each recurring third year none was chosen. In the future scholars will be elected from 32 states every year, and for this purpose the 48 states have been divided into three groups of 16 each--A, B, and C. Thus in 1916 scholars will be elected from A and B; In 1917 from...