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...conditions, mismanagement, congestion in the railroad yards, the Russians announced in a huff last January that they were going to pull out. Tall, handsome Richard Parkhurst, chairman of the Boston Port Authority, made mighty efforts, even won important concessions from the longshoremen, carried his pleas to Washington-to no avail. Russian officials took their business to other harbors, began complaining there just as loudly...
...team, in avenging last year's two losses to the Crimson, led all the way and was never seriously threatened until near the end of the contest when a determined Harvard rally cut the margin to four points all to no avail...
...deplorable physical condition in which many of our supposedly hale and hearty youths find themselves after four years of college will hardly lead to stirring victories in the hills of the Bataan Peninsula or in the sultry jungles of Malaya. It was once hoped that all students would avail themselves of the excellent athletic facilities at Harvard. However, such has usually not been the case, and once Freshmen have passed on to the privileged and indifferent status of upperclassmen, they have assumed the right of letting their bodies quietly disintegrate. Now the Hygiene Department finds that the average undergraduate...
Students who wish to avail themselves of the Flying Club plane may apply to the president, J. W. Straus '42, Eliot C-21 or to the secretary, K. R. Cornwell '43, Eliot...
...confident in our devotion to our country, in our love of freedom, in our inheritance of courage. But our strength, as the strength of all men. everywhere, is of greater avail as God upholds...