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...announcement made late last night by F. W. Moore '93, Graduate Treasurer of the Athletic Association. Rollins was a quarterback on the University team in 1915 which beat Yale 41-0. He had charge of the 1920. Freshman team, and was head coach of the informals a year ago this fall. At present, Rollin s is a student at M. I. T., but will devote his afternoons to the football team. Rollins will be assisted by F.J.O'Brien'14 as end coach and W. B. Snow, Jr.,'18 as mentor of the linemen...
...Radio School has had a remarkable growth from its modest opening two years ago to its size of nearly 5000 sailors before the signing of the armistice. Many of the University buildings, including Pierce Hall, formerly the Engineering building, Perkins Hall, Walter Hastings Hall, the Hemenway Gymnasium, and Memorial Hall have been taken over by the school, but were inadequate to accommodate the increased enrollment. Last Fall it was necessary to erect temporary wooden barracks on the Common to provide room for this growth, but since the close of the war, the enrollment has fallen off steadily...
Some two weeks ago, word came to us from Paris that the President was much encouraged by the cabled adherance of a very prominent Republican, whose name was not given, to the draft of the League of Nations Covenant. It now appears that this anonymous supporter of the principles underlying the Covenant was none other than ex-Senator Elihu Root, Secretary of State under Mr. Roosevelt, and member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague...
Some such program should have been advanced long ago. We have gone on long enough fostering these little nationalities in our midst, all but encouraging them to organize, sometimes even withholding the means of their becoming acquainted with our language and institutions. Employers have often found that ignorant foreign labor was cheaper than American labor. Through this indifference of ours to the process of naturalization arose a large part of the trouble which the Department of Justice and the Secret Service have had with the "hyphenated Americans" during...
...upon important national decisions, but I do most seriously suggest that the opinion of Harvard College does count--and however small its influence may be, it should not be withheld, especially with conditions as they are now. "Politics are for the politicians," said a certain Harvard professor some years ago. That day has passed. If the thinking people, the educated people, the people with the courage to stand up for their convictions and the energy and ability to disseminate their ideas, do not take an active interest in the affairs of the day. Bolshevism will be the least...