Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...eleven for the third successive season. Last year and the year before he played right halfback, while this season he has been moved to fullback. His brilliant open-field work, combined with exceptional ability in both drop-kicking and punting, has earned him a position on practically every All-American eleven that has been selected during the past two seasons...
Between the halves of today's game a collection will be taken up for the American Ambulance Corps in France, the Harvard Surgical Unit, and the Polish Relief Committee. The Corporation has granted special permission for this collection, which will be taken up under the auspices of the Phillips Brooks House Association...
...Harvard-Princeton game was $3,200. At the Yale-Princeton game, which was witnessed by 55,000 people, only $5,276.80 was contributed, an average of less than ten cents per individual. If every spectator today contributes a dollar, the resulting total will present an irrefutable proof that American sympathy and willingness to help have not died...
Harvard is not on a "war footing" in spite of the headlines of a Boston paper, as the Alumni Bulletin points out. But the question of giving technical military instruction in American colleges is becoming insistent, and will soon have to be answered. University presidents throughout the country are in general conspicuous advocates of preparation for defense. President Lowell has consistently supported the movement; President Hibben of Princeton, in an article reprinted in the Illustrated, urges Princetonians to take advantage of the summer military camps; and President Hadley has gone so far as to suggest the advisability of military instruction...
...Poetry Society will hold its first social meeting today in the Advocate Sanctum on the third floor of the Union at 4 o'clock. Robert Frost, a rising young American poet, will read selections from his own writings. He is a native of New Hampshire and his book on northern New England called "North of Boston" has been pronounced by critics as among the leading works of the day. His other book, "A Boy's Way" has also gained much favor both in England and America. Mr. Frost has left his farm in New Hampshire in order to deliver lectures...