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...talk the matter over with men of experience and get an idea of the conditions under which the Ambulance Service does its work and of the pressing need for a still greater number of volunteers. Harvard's record so far is above reproach, but in order to maintain her present numerical superiority it is hoped that as many men as possible will hand in their names to the committee in charge of the booth...
...year, Cornell can go Harvard just this one better, even thought it is evident that this index of universality is by no means an adequate or even an important test of an institution's national character. But considering the situation roughly, it still appears probable that Cornell could safely maintain title among all our national universities as the institution which comes nearer to the establishment of its national character on a basis of proportional representation among all the states than could other universities. Certainly it is much more nearly national in this respect than are the large universities...
...body as the American Academy, and the recognition it accorded the two new members, does something toward removing the impression that we are as a nation indifferent to achievements in arts and letters, and that we have no standards in such matters. The Academy is striving to establish and maintain such standards, as well as to encourage and stimulate interest in them. --Brooklyn Daily Eagle...
...time 114 Harvard men, graduates and undergraduates, have served in the Ambulance Service. Yale comes next with 40 members, which shows that the Service is in a way almost a Harvard enterprise. In the coming months when men are needed so badly, the University will have a chance to maintain the lead already established, if a greater number of men from the University enter the service...
...authorities of these institution have agreed "to establish and maintain a two-years' compulsory course of military training as a minimum for their physically-fit male students, which course when entered upon by any student shall as regards such student, be a prerequisite for graduation, to allot a minister of an average of three hours per week per academic year to military training and instruction, and to use their endeavors to promote its interests...