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...long campaign for enrolments in the R. O. T. C. closed last night. Fortunately the seriousness of the task was enlivened by heated arguments, impassioned sallies on the part of the opposition and semi-humorous retorts by the frenzied militarists who have suddenly appeared in our midst. The response of the members of the University to the imperative call for trained officers has been splendid. The final enrolment in the training unit is well over a thousand men which means that the same number have been willing to give double the amount of time required for the Regiment of last...
...greatest problems was that of concentrating effective bodies of troops in a short space of time. At present the transportation facilities of our railroads are entirely inadequate for such an emergency. In regard to the Chamberlain Bill he said that it provided for an enormous mass of semi-trained men without an adequate force of officers to properly direct the unmanageable numbers. It would be axactly like building a house and then constructing the scaffolding afterwards...
Atlanta University, an institution for the higher education of colored men and women in Atlanta, Ga., now celebrating its semi-centenial, has begun the raising of a half-million-dollar endowment fund. to this we gladly call our readers' attention in the earnest hope that some of them will contribute to this most worthy undertaking, even at a time when the need for help in Europe is so great. Why do we take this position? Because even in the south people are beginning to realize that if the colored people are to direct their footsteps towards efficiency, probity and useful...
...semi-final round of the elimination competition between the third-year law Club of the Ames Prize the Lowell Club was given a decision over the George Gray Club and the Witanagamot Club won from the Kent Club. These two winning clubs are the survivors of the contest which has continued through the fall between the seven winning clubs of the second year competition last winter. The George Gray, Kent, Lowell, Warren, Williston and Witanagamot clubs were those which began the elimination contest early in October...
Previous to the semi-final round, six of the clubs competed in a preliminary round, the three winners together with the seventh, which drew a bye, entering the second period. This left the Lowell, George Gray, Witanagamot and Kent clubs to compete in the semi-final contest won by the Lowell and Witanagamot clubs. The Ames Prize is awarded in two prizes of $200 and $100 to the winner and runner-up respectively in the final round of the third-year competition...