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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...kidnapped the cheer-leaders for the Tufts baseball game? For the tensest and the most important game played in the Stadium this year Mahan and the team behind him had no organized support whatever. That the strain of the game was terrific, in intellectual terms say Othello's third act to the limit, all present will testify. Everyone seemed ready to throw open the Janus-faced gates of etiquette and let out a little unrestrained enthusiasm, but no leader was on hand to give us the keys. The situation, to put it mildly, was disgraceful. R.W. BABCOCK...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cheering Lacking at Tufts Game? | 6/15/1916 | See Source »

...fact that one of the plays was written by a student in the college. In the last few years undergraduate plays have been extremely rare. The sub-Bakerite students have been able to design scenery, to fix electric lights, to sell tickets, to set stages, and to act. Now they even find themselves able to direct productions. But they evidently think that this is the limit of their powers. Playwriting they have left to the Graduate School and Radcliffe; and what should be essentially an activity of the College has become a joint activity of Harvard's young...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHERE ARE THE DRAMATISTS? | 6/15/1916 | See Source »

...unable to afford Plattsburg and would consent to act as waiters there, should call at the Regimental Headquarters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Regimental Announcements | 6/8/1916 | See Source »

...addition to $2,000 in prizes, the society's poster committee will act as an agency in disposing of many of the best originals to electrical companies, for use in their own special campaigns. The purpose of the competition is to obtain an appropriate emblem for the celebration of America's Electrical Week December, 2-9, 1916. During this celebration electrical parades, pageantry, shows and special illuminations will be held in the leading cities of the western hemisphere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRIZES OFFERED FOR POSTERS | 6/2/1916 | See Source »

...Plattsburg Camps crystallized what has been essentially a movement to educate public opinion. With the passing of the Reserve Officers' Act, and the colleges supporting preparedness by instituting military courses, the Camps will soon see developed a more complete system of preparation for the duties of an officer. The intelligent and energetic guidance of General Wood undoubtedly tends to the building up of a valid and thorough system of military education in which both Camp and College will play their parts. Such schemes cannot be improvised in a day, but meanwhile all who are able should be strongly urged...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW APPEALS FROM GRADUATES | 6/1/1916 | See Source »

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