Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...order of things is being torn to little shred a while we look on and yaw. There are some men in college, some men in their third year in Harvard College, who haven't much idea what it is all about, and are really quite bored with the whole affair. In a spirit of all brotherhood we advise such men not to attempt to enter the editorial competition...
...Secretary of 1907 reports: "Owing to the state of war existing between this country and Germany, it has seemed best to the committee in charge of our Decennial Reunion to cancel the elaborate plans they had prepared for the affair and to confine the Class activities to the ceremonies on Commencement Day and an informal dinner to be held in Boston on the night before Commencement, which, it is hoped, all those in a position to do so will attend. The committee hope that the elaborate celebration planned for this June will simply be postponed until...
...address a joint assembly of the two branches of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and the Sigma Xi honorary scientific fraternity at the University of Washington on June 8. The meeting will be held and the address given on the campus of the university. The occasion is an annual affair with the two societies...
...This affair is taken advantage of by a considerable number of men each year, whether they are spreading elsewhere or not. Attendance in former years has varied from 100 to more than 200 persons...
...annual Harvard interscholastic track meet will be held in the Stadium on Saturday afternoon, May 12. This meet will in all probability be the only athletic affair held under the auspices of the Athletic Association this spring, beside the informal sports that have been planned. Entry blanks have been sent to all the prominent preparatory schools in Massachusetts. The events will include the 100, 220, and 440-yard dashes; 880-yard run, one and two-mile runs, running high and broad jumps, and the pole-vault. The prizes will consist of gold, silver and bronze medals, which will be given...