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...long ago the Crimson Football Team used to come upon the field clad in crimson, or perhaps I should say vivid red blankets. They always made a striking appearance. These, however, have been entirely absent this year, and in their place a most ordinary gray blanket has been substituted...
...publications, athletics, administration, music, and dramatics. Without honor men the college could not acquire a scholastic standing; on the other hand, without its extra-curriculum activities Harvard would not be able to function on the same basis as other American colleges. The one is as essential as the other. Blanket condemnation of private schools, based on the scholastic standing of their alumni in the colleges, is foolish and absurd...
...order to give all former service men whose insurance has lapsed or been canceled, a fair chance to reinstate their insurance, including men who have been out of the service eighteen months or more, and who are therefore barred from reinstatement under the former ruling, a special blanket ruling is made which allows all ex-service men to reinstate their insurance before December 31, 1919, provided that each applicant is in as good health as at date of discharge or at expiration of the grace period, which ever is the later date, and so states in his application. Of course...
WAKEFIELD, MASS., June 4, 1917.--After a rather hot march the first battalion arrived on its camping ground at the Wakefield range at one o'clock today. This afternoon was spent by the men in getting settled in their new quarters, distributing their blanket rolls and making other preparations for their week of occupancy. Slings for the rifles were issued, as well as a limited number of army blankets to those men who were unable to secure their own. The tents which the four companies will occupy were ready when the battalion arrived, having been set up by the militia...
...members of the association also intend buying their supplies from a common stock which will then be distributed to the various papers. Furthermore offices are to be opened in New York and agents will be employed to obtain blanket advertising for all the papers from concerns which advertise nationally. Branch offices are later to be established in San Francisco and Chicago, and other points in the West which will act as distributing centres...