Word: chiefs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Some little agitation has been going the rounds of the campus in favor of having a Varsity football team, to play Yale and Harvard at least, provided, of course, these universities agree to the plan. The chief argument seems to be that since we have always had football there is no sufficient reason to stop it now, and the decision of the Military and Naval academies to continue their teams is brought forward to re-enforce the position...
...chief objection seems to be this--that football, if it were played, would be played purely for the spectacle and not for the athletic value, which value can alone justify resumption of the regular Varsity schedule. Advertisement of the universities by intercollegiate athletics should this year at least give way to physical and mental preparation for the burdens of the war. --Daily Princetonian
...short biographical sketch of the late Charles W. Harkness of New York City, in whose memory the quadrangle was given, and the formal speech of President Hadley in accepting the prospective group of buildings comprised the chief events of the program. The invocation was given by Dean Charles W. Brown of the Yale School of Religion and the corner-stone was laid by Edward H. Harkness of New York, brother of the former New York business man to whom the buildings are to be a memorial. He was assisted in the formal setting of the stone in place by James...
Plans for a big athletic carnival for soldiers and sailors to be held at the Stadium on Saturday, November 3, are being completed. Among the chief attractions will be a football game between a picked team representing the National Army cantonment at Ayer, and an eleven selected from the leading teams in the various naval camps of New England. Track games of all kinds are scheduled for the occasion, and it is probable that the finish of the cross-country run, which is also to be held, will be inside the Stadium...
Professor Perry spoke on the great value of social service to the man taking part. He called attention to the "long range" service of college men and advised all men to get into close contact. This getting into close contact with the outside world he emphasized as the chief advantage of social service work...