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...semi-annual report of the Co-operative Society for the six months ending December 31, 1918 shows sales at the Harvard stores amounting to $190,977.31, as against $204,085.47 for the same period last year. The sales at the Technology stores amount to $78,483.07 as compared with $56,956.96 for the same six months last year, making a net gain in the sales of both stores of $8,417.95. The decrease in sales at the Harvard stores is largely due to the late opening of the S. A. T. C. and its demobilization in December. The greater part...
...first Illustrated will appear tomorrow, and it will continue to be issued semi-monthly as before. This issue will contain, as far as possible, a resume of the work done by Harvard and Harvard men in the war. Another feature is the farewell address to the R. O. T. C., written for the Illustrated by Professor Andre Morize. There will be nine more issues before the end of the college year...
...Yale Corporation, President Hadley, recently laid down the general features of Yale's reconstruction policy. President Hadley plans to establish separate schools for the specialization of students in different branches of professional work, but to form a mediation between the two classes of students in the university--"the semi-professional students working under the group system and the non-professional students working under the elective system...
...training is taken for granted. Two additional courses are inserted in the requirements for a degree. Our first vague impression was that the proposed readjustment would simply undertake a saner organization of the present system, a truly equal opportunity for all in physical training, and a removal of the semi-professional spirit. Compulsory athletics we could neither regard as practical nor as advisable. Those who had seen the actual working of compulsion suggested that the opposition which the idea raised in the individual almost totally offset the advantages of the training offered. Although we cannot express an opinion...
...whole array of paid coaches, trainers, scouts and other attendants ought to be cut down considerably and the number of games which involve traveling might well be reduced. These things have made college athletics unduly expensive in the past and have given all college sport the taint of semi-professionalism. If the system is not to be reformed, it should at least be improved. Boston Herald...