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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will go to New Haven next Saturday to take part in the triangular meet between Yale, Princeton and the University. The three-cornered contest is an innovation this year, suggested because of the war-time curtailment of athletics. Princeton has easily the best team of the three, with several letter men still in college, while Yale and the University are more nearly balanced, neither possessing material of normal calibre...
President Lowell has received a letter from Major-General George Barnett of the United States Marines, announcing that University graduates who can show by certificate that they have satisfactorily completed all military science work here, will be eligible for commissions as first or second lieutenants in the Marine Corps. The men will go into an officers' training camp for three months soon after the end of this college year. If they fall to qualify they will be required to serve as enlisted men in the Marines...
...particulars concerning the location of the various officers' training camps for Marines are included in the letter, nor is any statement made of the date when they will open. This probably depends on the passage of the Navy Appropriation Bill...
...CRIMSON received the following letter from President Lowell late last night...
...more profitable if they continue their education until they are of age, and then use that education for the benefit of the army (or in civil life if the war is over). Officers high in the army have expressed themselves in this way. In a letter received within a few days, General Leonard Wood refers to "the policy which you and I have been driving at, which is a sound one. 'The boys are to finish their work at the college and not go until they are wanted and can be used to advantage...