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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...strenuous outbreak occurred. It had been the custom for students to offer excuse for absence from chapel. The tutors decided no longer to admit such excuses. This caused great indignation among the students, who met in a body and declared the rule "unconstitutional." Several windows were broken and several suspected students expelled. At this the three lower classes went to the President declaring that they would leave College. The Seniors applied for recommendation to another college. The Overseers of the College, however, held a meeting, and by confirming the action of the President and tutors and announcing their resolution...
College Spirit is a curse when it prompts a student to stoop to any dishonorable act in order to uphold the prestige of his school. To place money on a game because of a misconceived idea that loyalty to team and college demands it, is a fatal error common among college men. Gambling on the athletic contest, even when prompted by an overflow of zeal, is an evil just the same as the game of chance conducted in a dive...
...John R. Mott will preside over the Conference. Among the speakers will be Henry Sloane Coffin, of New York; Charles W. Gilkey '02, of Chicago; Robert E. Speer, of New York; T. R. Glover, of Oxford University; and Raymond C. Robbins, of Chicago. Meetings for the purpose of hearing these and other men will be held twice daily, and smaller groups will meet from time to time to discuss topics connected with the purpose of the Convention. Men wishing to attend should sign up with some one of the following committee: N. L. Tibbetts '15, chairman; H. A. Larrabee...
...that it has contributed not a little to the reputation of the School of Forestry. A fairly expensive volume of lectures sold at the rate of 100 a week for a period of more than twelve weeks; a study in economics has been widely distributed not only among libraries and professors but also among manufactures in the United States, England, Germany, and Japan: a medical textbook has been adopted for use in several of the largest medical schools in the country...
...Williams '16, runner-up at the National Singles Championship Tournament last summer, is undoubtedly the individual star among the tennis material at Harvard. L. Curtis '16, who played against Yale this year is the only other veteran from the University squad. R. Harte '17 is a promising candidate for tennis honors, and with G. C. Caner '17 will make the team trials in September come up to an unusual standard of excellence. Besides these T. J. D. Fuller '15, J. Wooldredge '16 and J. S. Brown '17 may be called upon to compete for the vacant positions...