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Better condition and judgment gave the University relay team a clean cut victory over the Boston Athletic Association at the Service Meet at the East Armory Saturday evening. The time was 6 minutes, 47 1-5 seconds for the 2,816 yard distance, each man running four laps or 704 yards...
Formerly officers were promoted and selected for special schools by seniority, alphabetically, and through the personal judgment of their superiors. In order to base promotion more upon actual merit than upon chance judgment and personal bias, a rating scale was formed on the principle of ranking officers of one's acquaintance according to certain characteristics, giving each individual so many points according to whether he was best, medium, or worst, and using them as a scale for selection of the men to be promoted. In this way one had concrete and definite examples or standards rather than vague notions...
...most of the plans and practices of the Faculty we are prepared to submit without question, recognizing their superior wisdom in matters connected with the academic life of the University. But it is always well to bear in mind that "the best will sometimes fail" and the judgment of our superiors is by no means to be accepted in every case as infallible...
...attend Chapel is at once a duty and an opportunity. When presence at Chapel was made voluntary by the University some years ago it was the tacit understanding that the honor and good judgment of the men would ensure their continuance of the custom. But recently neither of these virtues appear to have exercised a favorable influence upon the attendance. Much praise is due, however, to those few men who have either created or-continued the admirable habit of going to Chapel, especially at a time when the appeal of the bell has been regularly falling upon the deaf ears...
...unsettled conditions, the University has recently announced that it will make affidavits in support of claims for deferred classification in the draft, in behalf of all its instructors which it deems necessary during the ensuing year. At the present time a list of those men who, in the authorities' judgment must be retained, is being carefully prepared. This will be published as soon as possible...