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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Among the high schools of Massachusetts, Harvard has something not unlike the "farms" which the professional baseball clubs have established for raising fresh players. The Harvard players go out and coach these school teams and in a Boston paper we find an interesting story of a visit by the Harvard heroes, to a Cambridge school when they made excellent speeches to the school boys. Everett, Natick and Wercester high schools have also been honored by visits from Harvard players who carried them the glory of victory and stirred the spirit of athletic emulation...
...contrast the Cornell letter was by a member of the physical department who upheld the view that the four-mile race is too strenuous on young men who are in their early twenties. These above opinions are a sample of the many submitted and show that the question among other colleges is still an open one and no doubt in the near future the yet untried three-mile race will be given a thorough try out, although whether it will be successful or not is still doubtful...
...Stadium seem to me to be singularly monotonous and inconclusive. Except for a more or less witty Ivy Oration and the very pretty slinging of streamers and confetti there is nothing but a dull series of cheers. Since this occasion is largely a reunion of graduates, and since even among undergraduates only a part of the Freshmen are not supposed to have seen it before, could not some scheme be devised by which this ceremony could be made more entertaining to all present? I submit this to the serious consideration of the 1915 Committee in charge. RUDOLPH ALTROCCHI...
...Among the members of the Faculty and their wives who will be present this afternoon to meet the students are: Professor and Mrs. G. H. Parker, Professor and Mrs. B. M. Anderson, Professor and Mrs. Arthur Pope, Professor and Mrs. I. L. Winter, Professor and Mrs. A. P. Fitch, Dr. and Mrs. W. S. Weeks, and Mr. Pennypacker, of the Boston Latin School...
...more appalling, pernicious, and thoroughly reprehensible tendencies in modern times than banner bearing. In the light of modern investigation we clearly see that the young man in Longfellow's poem, "Excelsior," who bore a "banner with a strange device," was a dangerous fellow, who richly deserved to be lost among the snowy peaks, banner and all; that Betsy Ross should have devoted her time to knitting mufflers; that Barbara Freitchie was a foolish lady to risk her old gray head; in short that banners should be scrupulously eschewed -- especially red ones...