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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...difficulty is due to lack of money. It was Dean Thayer's intention had he lived to appeal to the graduates to provide for this need. The school was financially prosperous for many years and accumulated a surplus of about $400,000, which was used about 1906 to build Langdell Hall, as the Corporation could not give any assistance. The school has lost the interest on this large sum of money and increased its outgo by the additional charges for the maintenance of the new buildings...
...regard to the part the United States will play in the war, I cannot see how it will be necessary for her to do more than use her navy to its fullest extent, to build ships to be convoyed across the Atlantic, and to destroy the menace of the submarine. The building up of your navy and merchant marine, resulting in a destroying of the submarine warfare, will remove Germany's last hope of winning the war and I also believe that it will hasten the end of the war if Germany sees that America is really in earnest...
Herbert Jaques '11 talked on running last night at the Varsity Club, giving a comprehensive exposition of "the details that build up a track team." Among the topics that he treated are equipment, training as regards food, sleep, bathing, and light exercise, co-operation with the coach and with team-mates, running form and racing...
...diamond. Although the loss of E. W. Mahan '16, one of the best pitchers in collegiate baseball last year, will be greatly felt, Coach Duffy has two letter men in W. G. Garritt, Jr., '17 and C. L. Harrison '18 around whom he should be able to build a strong pitching staff. Harrison was especially effective last year, winning from Yale in the game at Cambridge, allowing the Yale batters but four hits and will probably head the list of boxmen this year. The staff will be strengthened further by W. B. Felton '19 and F. L. Leighton...
...clubs as self-electing close corporations shall be abolished, and a thoroughly democratic system substituted in their place. In this way they hope to establish a wider basis for fellowship, where all men will meet on an equal basis, regardless of their social position and personal characteristics and build up a more wholesome social structure...