Word: borings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...which sits at the southern end of University Hall is a 75 mm. American-made British, Model 1917. It is very much like the British 18 pounder, with the exception of the bore and the sighting apparatus, and is remarkably accurate. Along with this gun are some of the fire-control instruments to be used in the courses given at the University...
...have with us tonight a Senior Smoker--or rather the Senior Smoker, for the class of 1919 will have no other this year. It will be a smoker with all the trimmings that please some and bore others; rows of long wooden tables; plates of cheese and pretzels, movies in which Douglas Fairbanks will climb all ever the wrinkled sheet hung at the end of the Living Room, and the inevitable speeches. It is altogether fitting that the Seniors should celebrate in the manner of their pre-war Freshman and Sophomore years the last evening before they conceal their physical...
...have read with interest a delightfully cartooned article with a Latin title, which bore the signature "John Gallishaw" and appeared in the recent issue of the Harvard Magazine (White). It seems to be fashionable lately to cast aspersions on Senator Lodge. "Wily, plausible, insincere" he is called by our dean. Anything so vital as the proposed League of Nations must inevitably arouse considerable feeling, but is it not somewhat hasty to impugn suddenly shallowness to a man who has hitherto been accredited with sincerity if nothing else. The Latin heading ("She transit gloria Lodge") itself shows that Mr. Gallishaw once...
...year will also come a more normal college organization. Courses will again be given at their regular hours leaving ample time for extra collegiate journalism. The various college publications will resume on a normal basis. Life at the University will once more assume the enjoyable aspects it bore before...
...national service on March 25, 1917, and later, in August, it was combined with the Eighth Massachusetts to form what is now the regular 104th United States Infantry, of the 26th Division. This division left for France soon afterward, and was assigned to the Chemin-des-Dames sector. It bore the brunt of all the fighting in the vicinity of Chateau-Thierry, and was later transferred to the Toul sector...