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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Miss Jane Addams, of Hull House, Chicago, while speaking in the Union last evening on "International Peace" urged that it was particularly fitting that this country, the parent of religious and national toleration, should be the champion of mediation without armistice. She proposed that a conference of the representatives of the warring nations be contrived, and that a complete statement of their differences with their respective maximum peace terms be ascertained. Then would we have tangible material with which to work, and the germs from which might grow a clearer view of the situation, and correspondingly simpler methods of bringing...
...Pennypacker '17, and shortly opened up several more yards, but on the last lap Pennypacker cut the distance down so that D. Caldwell's lead over H. W. Minot '17 was but six yards. Caldwell succeeded in widening the gap considerably and Halpin, the B. A. A. champion, by clever starting secured nearly a quarter of a lap lead over W. Willcox '17. The latter was unable to cut down the lead and the B. A. A. won easily...
Ostracized in their weird structure on the Mount Auburn-Bow street dividing line, the Lampoon phalanx is anxiously practising how to take defeat graciously in the annual contest next Wednesday. The champion CRIMSON hockey team meanwhile awaits with grim glee its yearly job as executioner, all of the winning players being judged in the pink of condition...
...competition in track games has been so developed in the last two or three years that a meet such as the one proposed will fill a want among track enthusiasts. In support of this it is pointed out that in the last two years it has been noticeable that champions have failed to repeat their title winning feats in succeeding annual meets. A few years ago it was not uncommon for an athlete to capture first place in some event in which he specialized for two or even three years in succession. In direct contrast to this is the fact...
...Captain Williams, however, the University has by far the strongest player in the country. Williams is placed at number 2 in the United States ranking, and is the present national champion. G. C. Caner '17 will probably be second man on the team. Caner won the Harvard interscholastic tournament in 1913, and is a brilliant player. R. Harte '17, who, with Williams, won the intercollegiate doubles last summer, will not be able to play in the team matches, on account of his baseball playing. He will undoubtedly represent the University in the intercollegiates next summer, however. Other promising candidates...