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Candidates for the 1917-1918 informal hockey team will report at the Boston Arena at 4.30 o'clock this afternoon for the first practice of the year. All members of the upper classes are eligible, and men who are doubtful in regard to their standing should speak to R. E. Gross '19, who, in the absence of a separate informal coach, will take charge of this afternoon's practice...
Drill will be held at the Commonwealth Armory, Commonwealth Avenue, near Braves Field, Boston, as follows...
...spent last summer in Russia as a member of the American Red Cross Mission. Our party consisted of twenty-nine men and included specialists in medicine, bacteriology, hospital management, food, sanitation, and sociology. Colonel Frank Buildings of Chicago was in command of the expedition. We left Boston on June 29, crossed the Pacific in ten days, and then took the long ride of thirteen days across Siberia and Russia to Petrograd, where we arrived August 7. The object of the Mission was to give aid to the Russian people in their prosecution of the war by furnishing needed supplies...
...Sullivan, which was successfully presented last week by the Radcliffe Choral Society and the University Glee Club. The first performance today will be a 3 o'clock matinee, for which tickets are on sale at the Co-operative Branch Store, at Amee Brothers and at Hernick's in Boston. All seats for the evening performance, which starts at 8 o'clock, were sold out two days ago, and it was because of this fact that the matinee was scheduled. Such a heavy advance sale of tickets gives promise of a considerable profit for the Halifax fund...
Auguste Rodin's beautiful maxim, "Lenteur est beaute," manifestly is not a favorite with our present-day American universities. Just now the watchword with them is "Speed up the courses." To cite an example, in his annual report to the trustees of Boston University, Dr. Murlin, the president of that institution, advocates a general acceleration of the courses--and not only that; but an all-the-year-round session. Under Dr. Murlin's plan, which is devised for the benefit of busy young people who have something else in the world to do besides study, the instruction at a university...