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    I2 THE KENTUCKY ALUMNUS.  
      Papers were read by leading registrars of the country on various phases of  Q whon
  i   collegiate administration and registration. Among the speakers were C. M. ·  I
  J McConn, registrar of the University of Illinois; Edward ]. Mathews, registrar Q  flvfm
  , of the University of Texas; Noble D. Smithson, Washington and Lee Univer- msec
  . g sity; Lillian M. Snow, registrar, Hunter College; Guy E. Snavely, registrar,  _
j I H ,; Allegheny College.  
,l `   Professor Frank W. Nicholson, secretary of the National Conference Com-   ]
. .1 _  ; the c
it _ =   mittee on Standards of Colleges and Secondary Schools, made a report for the  _ held
    { g i committee on a uniform system of grades. i· appr;
i [ The address of welcome was delivered Wednesday morning by President  = __ l
  ‘ H. S. Barker, of the University of Kentucky. i  glp?
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  p STUDENTS TO DRILL FOUR YEARS. Q
ja ` Provisions of the National Defense Act recently adopted by Congress  
    establishing a Reserve Officers’ Training Corps at the University, were accepted  3 Ofic
  . Y by tl1e Executive Board. A four-year course in military science, leading to a  _ Of (
J' ; bachelor of science degree, to be directed by the commandant, was also estab-  1 Con
  [ lished by the Executive Board. — W€“
_   i Under the new plan the cadets will be required to drill five hours a week ° HIS
l` ` , instead of three and they will come under more direct supervision of the \’Vxr _
_¤ .. . { Department. L
l   Uniforms will be furnished cadets by the War Department during their . CO].
li ._ Freshman and Sophomore years. After drilling two years, students may elect  N com
i to drill for tl1e remaining years of their University course or they may be  · Eng
I . . excused as at present. If they adopt the former course they will be given an   _
i` ·i V allowance of 30 cents a day, together with a uniform for each year they drill.  Q  
  §_ After serving four years in the battalion, students are eligible for six m0nths’  I a {
l   _ service attached to a unit of the regular army with a Second Lieutenant rank, YE; the
  l 1 , for which they will receive a salary of $100 per month.  I
  ·   i . The military course is designed to interest University students in military  I
    , training and at the same time give them a liberal education with collateral  _
lg   _ studies in various departments.    
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Q`   L, E. SMITH, ’11.  L  
2,   Dean Miller has received a letter from L. E. Smith III, medical missionary T
i f j in \l\/est Africa about 75 miles north of the equator. j  lla
Q   He writes interestingly of his stops at Porto Rico, Cadiz, Spain, Santa E
i gg Cruz and Canary Islands, where he climbed the snow-clad peak of Teneriie, .,
  1 12,191 feet above the sea, from the top of which he could look down into the  5
i ·* smoking crater, and ISO miles out to sea. -. E.
.   He writes of the wildncss of the country where he now is-—full of big game  »· mi
—; Q ` -—of a leopard which came into his yard the week before, of a gorilla which * I.
7   y blocked the road a few miles out in the bush, killing several natives, one of  · M
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