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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...results of the presidential straw ballot held among the faculty and undergraduates of Dartmouth by The Dartmouth, the undergraduate newspaper show that the two bodies were exactly opposed in their opinions of the presidential candidates. The faculty and officers of administration gave Wilson 64 per cent. and Hughes 36 per cent. of their votes, while the undergraduates gave Hughes the lead with 64 per cent to Wilson's 36 per cent. Hughes was supported by the officers of administration, but the faculty members of the departments of social sciences were solid for Wilson. The interest in the straw ballot...
...Dadmun '17, captain of the football team, C. A. Coolidge, Jr., '17 and several other prominent men. The usual beer, ginger ale and cigarettes will be provided and several moving pictures will be shown. In addition free cans of a new brand of smoking tobacco will be distributed among members of the class...
...away around the earth, and, seeking for a place to put his own rubbish, inpinges upon the rubbish of the up-to-date builder of twenty-six centuries gone; he finds the pieces of Tirhaka and Tanut-Amon, reconstitutes them with care, and promotes them to the chiefest honor among the denizens of Napata. Could there be a more romantic rebirth than that...
...Among the incentives to student ambition at Harvard this year is a prize of $200 for the best paper on plumbing. What plumbing has to do with scholarship and its bearing on proficiency in Latin or football is not quite clear. Yet in a sense plumbing is a classical theme; the pipes, by which the water was conducted through the Roman baths were early examples of the plumber's art and no doubt a comprehensive academic dissertation on the subject would trace their relation to the modern bath...
...Club possesses a library of the latest contributions to the subject, is a member of the National Federation of International Polity Clubs which publish a paper written largely by members of the various clubs, and divides its work among a number of departments...