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...Saturday by the Cosmopolitan Clubs of the University and of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the Walker Memorial Building at M. I. T. The program, which will include a dance, will afford an opportunity for the foreign students of the two institutions to become acquainted. The entertainment will begin at 7.45 o'clock, and the time for stopping the dance, which will start at 9.15, has by special permission been extended till 12 o'clock...
...first group of 15 men have just completed the primary course in attacks, feints and parries, and are to begin fencing with wands in combat practice next week. More candidates are desired, however, and Coach Leslabay is very anxious to have a new group of 15 or more report to him at the Randolph Gymnasium during the coming week, in order that he may have 30 fully-trained instructors ready to take over the work with the R. O. T. C. in the spring term...
...Cornell, preparations for the inauguration of the University lacrosse season will begin on next Monday, when the initial practice will be held. Although the team will have a nucleus of only three veterans, athletic authorities intend to lay special emphasis on lacrosse, as it is one of the intercollegiate sports strongly advocated by the Government as valuable training for future soldiers...
...sixth of the University Teas will be held in the Parlor of Phillips Brooks House this afternoon from 4 to 6 o'clock. Although all members of the University are invited to be present, those professors, instructors, assistants, proctors, and their wives, whose surnames begin with S, T and W will be the special guests...
...annual winter peace flurry is blowing over. It will completely disappear when the spring offensives begin. Then Germany must be beaten in the field. Victory by economic pressure has been rendered impossible by the defection of Russia. Germany can fight on without other foreign trade if the vast resources of Russia are at her disposal, and victory by attrition, much heralded in 1915, seems more distant than ever. In spite of three years of losses greater armies will face each other across the trench lines of the Western front this spring than ever before in the conflict...