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Members of the University are especially needed for the fourth class of the Naval Reserve Force--the Naval Coast Defence Reserve. This division is a Naval District proposition. The First District is the local one. It extends from Eastport, Me., to Chatham on the Cape. Captain Rush is in charge of this district and has power to enroll anybody who would be useful on the war slate of his naval district. This embraces patrol boats, civil engineers, structural engineers, mechanical engineers...
...been stated that in recommendations for commissions in the Officers' Reserve Corps there will be a certain predisposition against any member of the University who comes up for examination for the Corps without having enrolled in the local Training Corps. This arises from the lack of ambition and sincerity which the failure of students to join the Training Corps may be taken to evidence. It applies only to this extent and is not at all a bar to men who convince the board of the adequacy of their training and experience...
...Investments" and "Financial Management of Railroad Companies"; transportation, "Railroad Accounting and Statistics" and "Water Transportation"; insurance, "Fire Insurance Engineering"; "Life Insurance Agency Methods" and "Actuarial Practice"; lumbering, "General Lumbering" and "Lumber Problems"; law, "Law Relating to Railroad Rate Making"; industrial management, "Factory Practice"; Chamber of Commerce Work and Methods"; local public utilities, "Public Utilities Operation"; and foreign trade, "Latin American Trade Problems...
...Poughkeepsie races were inaugurated in imitation of the Oxford-Cambridge race of somewhat over four miles on a fast current. We have at most of our rowing colleges, been for years rowing a distance which seems unsuited to our climatic conditions, our natural physiological temperament, and to the local conditions prevailing at most of our rowing colleges, merely because under entirely different circumstances, Englishmen have developed a four-mile tradition...
...director of the Hemenway Gymnasium, who spoke next, outlined the history of the sport in Harvard, where Theodore Roosevelt '80 and Robert Bacon '80 made records as amateur pugilists while undergraduates. The interest in the sport aroused by its revival in the University last winter was by no means local, for Cornell, Pennsylvania, California, Leland Stanford, Virginia and Fordham took up boxing last year...