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President Lowell and Lieutenant Colonel Paul Azan, Litt.D. '17, are to be the principal speakers at the 10th annual reunion and business meeting of the Harvard Club of Boston in the club-house, this evening at 8.30 o'clock. As the date set for the meeting coincides almost to a day with the 10th anniversary of the founding of the club, the occasion will be celebrated with appropriate exercises...
Today marks the 84th anniversary of President Eliot's birthday. In characteristic fashion he is celebrating the occasion at his home in Cambridge, engaged in the usual routine of his work. Almost half of President Eliot's life has been spent as president of the University, and his entire career has been closely connected with University affairs. He was born in Boston on March 20, 1834, and after acquiring his early education at the Boston Latin School, entered Harvard when 16 years of age, receiving his A.B. in 1853 and A.M. in 1857. Since then he has received the honorary...
...Danish coast. Germany seizes the Aland Islands, which formerly belonged to Sweden and which command the northern entrance to the port of Stockholm and the exit from the Gulf of Bothnia, through which the largest part of Sweden's trade finds its outlet. Germany is reaching out almost to the Pole, demanding of Russia, the abandonment of claims to Spitzbergen and seeking a conference through which it can juggle Norway out of her colonization prospects with a view to developing the island's coal beds and phosphoric deposits...
...clock the Freshman-Upperclass relay started, the 1921 men showing great superiority over the more experienced runners and finishing almost half a lap ahead of their opponents. The teams were made up as follows: Freshmen--G. S. Baldwin, J. M. B. Churchill, C. A. Page, F. L. A. Cady, D. F. O'Connell, A. W. Douglass; Upperclass--D. J. Duggan '20, C. F. Batchelder '20, J. F. Linder '19, P. E. Stevenson '20, S. B. Toye '18, W. H. Goodwin...
...become almost proverbial that the easiest way to reach the American is through his pocketbook. Europeans have portrayed us as a money-loving people; our citizen and the "Yankee dollar" have become inseparable in their minds. All this may have been true previous to the last year. At the end of the war, however, Europe will no doubt realize that money-desires were but a veneer upon the true American character...