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There are few of us who regard our friends of the Twenty-Sixth without a certain degree of envy. What are the rigors of a western army post, the monotony of a southern training camp to what these men have seen? Harvard University will do its best to extend to the Twenty-Sixth Division, and the Harvard men in it, a welcome worthy of its achievements...
Shay has had two years' experience with major and minor league clubs. He went from Goddard Seminary in 1916 to join the Chicago "Cubs" as short-stop and worked with them throughout the season. The following winter he went to the St. Joseph club of the Western League. In that year, his batting average was .274, the highest of any short-stop in the league. He acted as captain of the team during part of the season. Shay joined the navy in December, 1917, and played with the Charlestown Navy Yard team during the following spring...
...leagues in collegiate institutions just as there are elsewhere. As a matter of fact, even under present football rules, small institutions are not reasonable competitors for large institutions. I am such a thorough believer in intercollegiate competition that I find no difficulty in considering an Eastern league and a Western league of natural competitors, and I would leave opportunity for the winners to play at the end of the season on some neutral college ground or municipal stadium which would be conveniently accessible to both...
Before the war Colonel Scott was head of the Psychology Department in North-western University. Upon the outbreak of hostilities he was appointed by the War Department Director of the Committee on Classification in the Army, and received a colonel's commission. He invented the Scott Rating System for officers and the grading system for enlisted men. He has been lecturing in Boston during the past week...
Princeton has already taken extensive precautions against becoming a "local university". Harvard should adopt similar measures. The diffusing of information among Western and Southern schools apropos to the requirements for admission and departments of the University; creating better facilities for men of those schools to take the entrance examinations; establishing regional scholarships;--all would tend to direct large numbers of men to Harvard which would benefit both the men and the University. No one will deny that the academic side of Harvard is the apotheosis of all educational institutions. Why, then, should the other equally important side of a college...