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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...available are A. F. Doty '16, J. Wooldredge '16, L. Curtis, 2d '16, and J. S. Brown, Jr. '17. J. S. Pfaffman '16, who was ineligible last year, will be a likely candidate. From the class of 1918, H. G. M. Kelleher is a man who is certain to make a strong bid for a place on the team. E. B. Benjamin '18, W. D. D. Morgan '18, and H. Talcott '18 are also good players...
...Freshman crew manager competition will start directly after mid-years, on Monday, February 14, at which time all candidates are expected to report. The work about the boathouse, together with a certain amount of clerical work, will commence on that date and continue until some time in May, when a manager and assistant manager will be appointed. Both these men will be taken to Red Top with the crews when they go down for the final weeks of practice before the Yale regatta. The competition is open to all members of the class of 1919. Anyone wishing further information should...
...cruel and unusual punishment has been meted out to the student mind at Bowdoin, New York University, and a Middle Western state university. . . . Elementary questions about the war, such as the location of Gallipoli and Saloniki, the identity of Venizelos, Viviani, Poincare, . . . were presented to certain college classes, with the result that Venizelos appeared as anything from a French general to a Mexican rebel. . . . The Dean of Bowdoin questions whether students of New England colleges are very steady newspaper readers. . . . The trouble is that if the proper names mean nothing, the reading is of limited good. The fault...
...intellectual subservience. The vitriolic young men, seeking publicity, who make these charges, conveniently forgot that they are often allowed to make their denunciations in college buildings, and then are invited to speak again. They forget also that American "big business" men were as strongly opposed to the retention of certain pro-German professors in the University as they possibly could be to the employment of radical lecturers. Yet the professors were retained...
...connection with Seniors living in the Yard there are now two traditions: the one, that Senior classes always room there; the other, that the old dormitories are most undesirable places to live in. The latter tradition has more than a little foundation owing to certain crudities in the conditions there, such as the furrowed floors and dust-spreading brooms. Nevertheless, these old dormitories are now equipped with all the conveniences of Mt. Auburn street, with the exception of swimming pools and elevators. And it need hardly be said that any man who cannot forego these two luxuries and undergo...