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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...April have been abandoned. The ballot indicated that the members of the class were not sufficiently interested in the entertainment to contribute the time necessary to make it a success. In addition to this the general opinion that the first-year smokers do little to promote social intercourse among members of the class has led the committee in charge, with the approval of the Faculty, to abandon the smoker...
...Cornell toward the organization of a section in the American Ambulance Field Service. It is planned to furnish equipment for the unit and support for men who will volunteer their services. The committee in charge has scheduled entertainments, motion pictures and lectures with a view to arousing interest among the students...
There can be no question that the current Illustrated is the best number of the year. Notwithstanding the minor faults,--among which I would place the occasional faults in the composition mentioned above, the use of full-page cartoons, which seem rather flippant and cheap for a serious college pictorial, and the glaring double-page "ad" in the exact centre of the paper,--the issue is very creditable. It reflects University life in its clever photographs, and echoes the present universal stir for real preparedness in a way which should fully satisfy the most broad-minded among...
...Dark Ages before any of the undergraduates now in College knew that Harvard existed the University football teams tasted defeat year after year. The numbers at the games were small and unenthusiastic, and the Crimson supporters regarded football as a necessary evil among sports. Suddenly there came a change. Football was transformed into the most highly organized of all college activities. Certain prominent graduates interested themselves in the development of an efficient system of coaching, and immediately increased numbers of undergraduates responded to the call for candidates when they realized that their efforts would receive the attention they deserved. Much...
Harvard leads the race and, save for Yale, she has not even a respectable competitor. Among the 2,000 distinguished persons of the younger generation, Harvard has graduated almost as many as Columbia, Cornell, Pennsylvania and Princeton combined; almost as many as Wisconsin, Stanford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Johns Hopkins, Chicago and California combined. Harvard and Yale together have graduated 24 more of these distinguished persons than Columbia, Cornell, Pennsylvania and Princeton combined. The supremacy of these institutions, and of Harvard in particular, is little short of astounding...