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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...city and province of Antwerp from 1914 to 1916, and was director of civilian relief in the American Red Cross for Italy last year, is at the head of the Bureau of Reconstruction and Relief. On the Editorial and Historical Division, Barton Blake '05 acts as chief and included among his assistants is Lewis S. Gennett '13. Most of these men have been abroad from the first...
...president of the day will be Chief Justice Rugg of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. Among the honorary vice-presidents are Governor McCall and Mayor Peters of Boston. The heads of many of the leading colleges and universities of the East, including President Lowell, have announced that they will be present at the meeting...
...become the greatest among the Supermen is to win a bigger victory than any other general. Von Buelow now leads the competition, thanks to the Italian retreat, and Von Hindenberg has to act quickly or go the way of Von Kluck and the other old-timers. When a German general is worried as to the next move he either writes a proclamation thanking God and the soldiers for help received and promising more victories with no casualty lists, or he mentions the idea of moving right on to Paris. The latter method is apparently more fashionable this year...
...says in his book: "The Harvard Overseers, in fact, are, above all, men of conspicuous social standing; the proportion of intellectuals among them is slight, and many regret it. This merely expresses the fact that the dominant concerns of the graduate body are not of the intellectual order. They deeply love thier University, interest themselves in its prosperity, provide for its material support with the utmost generosity; but in the memories of youth which attach them to it the intellectual interest plays only a part that is effaced...
...Among the other three events in which informal and Freshman track athletes took part, the only one in which any member of the University placed was the running high jump, which C. G. Krogness '21 won by a leap of five feet 10 3-4 inches, which made six feet, three-quarters inch with his handicap of two inches. Krogness was first, however, in actual jumping, for second place was won by A. S. Roberts of the Radio School with an actual jump of five feet eight inches and three inches handicap, making five feet 11 inches. Another Radio School...