Word: chiefs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...wealth of material returning Coach Robinson should have little trouble in developing a team even stronger than this year's. Pollard stands out as the star of the 1916 eleven. Although inclined to be erratic, this player by his clever dodging running made himself the chief ground-gaining asset of the team this fall. With more experience the should develop into a phenomenal halfback. Besides Pollard there are such men as Purdy, Jemail, and Murphy in the backfield. These, with Sprague, Ward, and Wade, to bolster up the forwards, should produce a strong combination next year...
...clock and dancing will follow the performances on December 14-and 16. The play, "The Perverseness of Pamela," by Virginia Church, is a delightfully keen comedy in three acts, dealing with the social intrigues and amusing side of life at a well-known army post. The chief figure, of course, is Pamela, an irresistible, charming, incorrigible young lady who keeps everyone in a high state of excitement. This play was highly commended by the judges of the Craig Prize competition. Miss church, having lived at an army post in Virginia, knows her subject well...
...Harvard to be a national university with a local college as its neucleus? The answer is to make the College also national. And the chief reason why it fa9ls to keep pace with the University in national expansion, is to be found in the system of entrance examinations. Particularly in the western part of he country these examinations militate strongly against a greater number of men coming to Harvard, because admission to the local western colleges requires only a certificate. The factor of inaccessibility has been largely obviated by the decision to accept Board examinations. Nevertheless, as long as examinations...
...sake of doing things. The same is true of nations. Among the things which a man may be called on to do are the helping and protecting of others. The same is true of nations. We Americans have passed our national infancy; it is no longer our chief biological function to feed and fatten and protect ourselves. We have reached the age of public responsibility; and unless we wish to invite national atrophy and decline, we must make up our mind to do a man's part in the hard work of the world. The chances that we shall...
General Leonard Wood, M'84, chief-of-staff of the United States army, stated yesterday, when interviewed by telephone by members of the Military Preparedness Committee of the University, that he would endeavor to have a special officer detailed to drill the University battalion and to have the men's equipment supplied by the War Department, provided 400 men should sign up for the proposed Harvard Volunteer Battalion before Friday night at 6 o'clock. The committee has consequently placed blue-books in Leavitt & Peirce's, the Union, Memorial Hall, and the Freshman Dormitories in which men may enlist...