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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University sport in England is primarily Oxford and Cambridge sport. It true that there are other universities England, but (except from the stand point of scholarship pure and simple) they count for little. 'To go up to the University' means ordinarily to become student at Oxford or Cambridge. It as been said that an understanding of English society is necessary to a comprehension of English politics. It might equally well have been said of English University sport. Both politics and 'varsity sport' are the amusements of a class which has no counterpart in this country...
...five more minutes. Whenever a member of one party wishes to express his appreciation of an especially convincing argument by an opponent he is requested to change sides. After the discussion opportunity will be given to shift to the side of the house with which one agrees. A count will then be taken of the number on either side. By this means it is hoped to determine the attitude of the undergraduates towards the present Congress and Administration...
...Freshmen are requested to get their tickets for the class banquet which will be held in the Living Room of the Union tomorrow night, some time today, so that the Dinner Committee may know how many men to count on. It is especially desired that men not living in the Freshman Dormitories attend so that the class may get together as a whole. Many tickets have already been sold, but not enough have been disposed of as yet to make the affair a real success. They may be obtained any time today from any member of the Dinner Committee except...
...Article III of the Constitution for the three lower classes, which describes preferential voting as follows: "The system of preferential voting described below shall be used in all class elections. Each elector shall indicate his order of preference for all the candidates for each office. A first choice shall count one, a second two, and so on. The candidate receiving the lowest numerical total shall be declared elected. Any ballot on which all the candidates for any office have not been voted upon shall be declared invalid for that office...
...financial statement of the Cornell athletic association shows a deficit for the year of $3,000. The reason for this lies in the fact that Cornell, although ranking highly in athletics, can never count on drawing the large crowds that congregate at the athletic events in other cities, because Ithaca is so isolated. However, many improvements to the property of the Association have contributed toward causing this deficit, the largest single expense being that for a new baseball cage. Football showed a gain of only $10,000, and crew and track were maintained at a big loss. Undergraduate support, represented...