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...last year the work of Phillips Brooks House has taken on a new significance. Where before it was called upon only to meet local need, it has now entered a larger sphere. We need make no mention of the little nut which followed our regiment to Barre, nor of the canteen now maintained for the Cambridge sailors. We need not repeat the praise rendered this house of service for its aid in the Y. M. C. A. campaign, in the Halifax disaster, and in many other war concerns. Its record stands for itself, a memorial to Harvard...
...Harvard's camp of last summer was popular and valuable, why wouldn't a camp established on much broader lines, and conceivably of much larger efficiency, be still more popular and valuable? In asking this question there is neither attempt nor desire to minimize the great service which Harvard has rendered the nation. The men it educated at the Fresh Pond trenches and at Barre made an excellent showing at the subsequent Plattsburg, and they are making an even better showing today as officers in the National Army. But Harvard's camp was an infantry camp to train infantry officers...
Would it not be more to the point this year for certain universities to unite their summer training into a single, All-College R. O. T. C.? Such an arrangement would abolish many of the objections to small camps, which are expensive even for the larger universities and impossible in the smaller colleges. In addition, it would have tremendous advantages in the following ways...
...solution of the intercollegiate rowing problem is slowly but surely reaching an end as one college after another announces its policy for the spring work", states Lawrence Perry, in the New York Evening Post. "Although there have been many ways of expressing it, the underlying idea in all the larger universities is the same, to shape their plans in rowing with reference to present condition and not, as it were, to buck the inevitable...
...trend of college athletics this spring is visibly toward that form of sport which effects the general development of all students rather than the intensified training of a few. Though formal intercollegiate contests were abandoned early in the fall by many of the larger colleges, the recent tendency is to conduct games as usual, though with an object, not of victory, but of physical development...