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...unbroken stretch of eight years would not prove too appalling for the ordinary student, there might be many advantages. The present system, which completes a four-year, academic unit, before beginning with professional training suits very well the needs of those who do not intend to enter a profession, and of those who do not know which profession they will follow. But the eight-year plan includes a preliminary general foundation equally necessary for every profession; and moreover allows plenty of time in which to select some particular one. In this way it has at least all of the advantages...
...eight-year course might be relied upon to give a better balance to the professional educations than now exists; naturally, if eight years are available, to be planned as a unit, a better arrangement, a more far-seeing distribution can be chosen. But while, as at present, most men can devote only four years to college, and even professional students are not always decided about their careers, the two-unit system must remain the more flexible, the more adaptable to everyone's requirements...
Preliminary theoretical instruction in the art of flight throughout the spring and intensive practice in, actual flight for 45 days in the sumer, will comprise the course. The competition of this work, however, will open the way to quailing student aviators to enter an operating aviation unit of the regular Navy, will receive advanced instruction after that they will be eligible for an ensign's commission...
...erection of a new gymnasium somewhere between Massachusetts avenue and the Freshman dormitories as soon as funds are available, and the immediate construction of a swimming pool as the first unit of such a plant--these are the outstanding features of Mr. W. H. Geer's report to President Lowell for the academic year...
...Freshman dormitories. With funds available to cover the cost of a modern swimming pool, it would seem to be in order to recommend such construction as soon as a satisfactory site can be provided. A swimming pool could be so constructed that it would become a definite unit of the proposed indoor exercise building when funds become available for that purpose...