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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Crimson line was weak. Parson stood out among the centre Linemen like a giant among pygmies, and was as effective as ever. Bigelow was fair. Dadmun, however, is still inexperienced, and cannot yet be counted as a powerful figure. Duncan seemed to be deplorably weak. Gilman was out of the game with a sprained ankle, and there apparently was no substitute worthy to replace the big regular. Cowen, too, was hors de combat with an injured ligament in the calf...
...consists in gathering and writing up news items which are of interest to members of the University, and affords in addition, an invaluable training in self-expression, an admirable opportunity to get into touch with the working of the University, and an excellent chance to form an extensive acquaintanceship among the more prominent undergraduates...
...Among other of the summer publications of the Press is the "Report of the Expedition of the Harvard School of Tropical Medicine in South America," which is the first study of the kind, and will probably have an important effect on preventive medicine in South America. This work is compiled by Professor Richard P. Strong of the Medical School, who was the head of the recent expedition which was instrumental in stamping out the epidemic of typhus in Servia last spring...
Women, the war, athletics, and personalities comprise the range of subjects. Among the first named, virtue is apparently unknown. The weaker sex is subject to slandering remarks whose sole aim is to fill a gap in the conversation. When the talk wanders to the war, someone says "I hope those damned ------ get licked," and the subject is closed. Even on athletics where the interest is keenest, desultory remarks and blasphemies on Yale are the main element. Interspersing everything are biting personalities on another's physical or mental qualities. A tone of affected cynicism crowns the whole...
...catastrophe. Once the game was on, the American Embassy in Paris became one of the busiest places in Europe, on it having devolved the care of those citizens of all the nations fighting against the French, still resident in, or travelling through, France. Many Harvard men were among those at once pressed into the corps of workers in the Embassy: Robert Bacon, '80, Robert W. Bliss '00, 1st Sec. of the Embassy, and W. O'D. Iselin '05, were active workers from the very beginning. Since those days there have been many changes. Major Morton Henry '92, Edward Pickman...