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...Student Council Committee on Military Affairs has exhaustively taken up the question of the most advantageous method of conducting the Harvard Regiment. After consulting President Lowell, General Wood and several other authorities, the Committee has decided that in the short time between now and June it will be impossible to complete the training for officers. Therefore the proposed plan has been designed to teach as much as possible, but primarily to arouse interest in military affairs, and to teach each individual how much there is to learn and how little he knows. It is hoped that the proposed scheme will...
...benefit of many who seem uncertain as to the exact purpose, method of organization, qualifications and requirements for joining the battalion, the committee announces the following tentative plan. However, the arrangements have not been definitely settled nor approved by the authorities...
There are few Harvard graduates with the strong personality of this greatest of football tutors. No one can listen to him, can be near him when he is at his work, without becoming infused with something that transcends any coaching method or system. Only last season be took a baseball team, without its captain and under other disadvantages, and developed from that willing and able squad a nine that won the intercollegiate championship, taking the first two games of the Yale series...
...offense, the Elis indeed had little, simply a few variations of the old Minnesota shift, but Princeton overconfidence and Guernsey's drop-kicking made an offence practically unnecessary. The main point is, that what Yale did show in the game was good. The Yale line, given a simpler method of interference, showed the ability to be of great aid to its backfield, while the backs impressively demonstrated that they had been carefully drilled in breaking up the forward pass and that with a little more training they would be capable of producing a strong running attack...
Many very theoretical courses, however, are still conducted by the lecture method. Even advanced courses, in philosophy and economics, for example, are given in this manner. As a system it is clumsy and wasteful; as it is a fetich in education which should be superseded as quickly as possible by more intelligent methods...