Word: dead
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Before the end of the football season makes the subject a dead issue, the CRIMSON wishes to call attention to a desirable change in the existing system of awarding football insignia. The University squad now numbers about thirty men, of whom perhaps fifteen will, by the end of the season, have won the right to wear the football "H". The others, who may be only a little less competent than the men for whom they are substitutes, will have no reward except the consciousness of duty well done...
...respects to our comrades who died in the field. It is profoundly touching, it is inspiring, the thought that a great government instituted a great national day on which the feeble and young weave the flowers of spring and place them on the graves of the dead...
...lives for their country. The chivalrous Devon, Wadsworth, and the gallant Shaw, for although he never graduated he deserves to be ranked among the alumni of this University. When the sergeant, in calling the roll, comes to the name of Latour, his comrades in the ranks salute and answer--'Dead on the Field of Honor.' So should we rise when the roll is called and answer not for just one comrade, but for scores of thousands of comrades--'Dead on the Field of Honor!'" The exercises closed with "America" sung by the entire audience...
...impersonal to take some notice in morning Chapel of the death of a member of the university, and if some simple and appropriate service could be arranged and his friends and classmates be made aware of the fact, their attendance would be a fitting tribute to the dead...
...Saturday's race was Oxford's third victory since 1899, when its nine consecutive victories over Cambridge were ended by a defeat. Of the 66 races between the two universities Oxford has won 35 and Cambridge 30, the race in 1877 ending in a dead heat...