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...National Draft men of the ages from 18 to 21. Here is a serious possibility, but one which must be faced in all resolution. The Civil War was largely won by the men of these ages. Among them is much of the material which experience has shown best able to stand the strain of battle. The disturbance of their education, though most unfortunate, is less threatening to the country than the disruption of economic and industrial conditions which would follow the taking of men in the ages beyond the present draft limit. Of course it will not become a proper...
What seems undeniable is that the immediate interests of the community, in fact of the whole country, would best have been served had the McKay endowment been discovered available for use in the way agreed upon by Harvard and by Technology. There would not be wisdom, it has thus far appeared, in building up side by side in Cambridge, two great schools of technical science and engineering, one on the Charles and one at Harvard square...
...while Technology is not a part of the University to the extent that the other departments are, it is virtually the Harvard School of Applied Science carried on at Tech. Another reason for this action is the fact that the equipment of the University is not adequate for the best kind of a scientific school, and especially one which would be set up in the vicinity of another already successfully established on the same lines. The purpose of the University has been to carry on a Harvard School of Applied Science in Technology's buildings...
...Interscholastic Scholarship Trophy of the University Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, which is annually awarded to the preparatory school whose candidates for admission have made the best record at the entrance examinations, has been given this year to the St. Mark's School at Southborough. Of the 20 St. Mark's men who took the examinations, five appear on the honor list. The names of the honor candidates...
...other plan under consideration was that of intramural games, inter-battalion or inter-class. It had been thought that such a plan would give the best opportunity for exercise to the largest number of students, but the meeting last evening decided that either inter-battalion or inter-class games would be impracticable. There is not enough esprit de corps to warrant battalion athletics, and the classes of 1919 and 1920 are the only ones who could make up sevens. Accordingly, the meeting recommended that hockey for the students who are not experts should be played in the Leiter Cup series...