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...university to the college Military Instruction Camp at Plattsburg this summer, sending 48 undergraduates. In the camp for business men Princeton was represented by 120 alumni and the Princeton team won the rifle shoot. That university has taken almost more interest in the camp than any other of the larger universities...
This suggestion, while offering some technical difficulties, as explained by President Lowell, appears to be the best of those advanced for the abolition of war. It does not advocate disarmament but preparedness, but it makes of preparedness a larger issue than local protection, for it applies it to the prevention, of strife internationally. It realizes that not only must war with one's own country be prevented but with any country if peace and prosperity are to come to the world...
...rules governing speculation in tickets to the larger football games will be upheld with the usual stringency this year. The attention of Freshmen in particular is called to the rules and customs of the H. A. A. in regard to such speculation. At this season of the year it is customary for the agents of professional speculators to approach first year men and by taking advantage of their ignorance of these rules to make contracts to take their tickets at a premium...
...more likely to avert than to precipitate hostilities. There is no danger of our becoming a military people embarked upon the career of conquest. But perhaps these men do not fully appreciate the importance to us of preventing wars elsewhere; of using our own preparedness as part of a larger plan of policing the whole world; and of preventing so far as possible the starting of a conflagration which may set us afire, however small our connection with the people who strike the match, and our direct interest in the questions that caused them to do so. To the prepara...
...University delegation to the summer military camp at Plattsburg, N.Y., was larger than that from any other institution. Out of a total of 612 college men, 84 were Harvard undergraduates, and in the business men's section which totalled 1300, nearly one-third were Harvard graduates. The camp this summer was very successful in every particular; the usual rigid discipline and careful instruction was in order, and an unusually large number of men were recommended as commissioned officers of volunteers. The season closed with at 75 mile march which was filled with maneouvering of every description...