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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Dean Briggs' official announcement of the eligibility rules to be enforced in athletic contests this spring clears the atmosphere in regard to this difficult question. That the members of our teams must be on the same basis of training and hours of practice as their opponents has always been an accepted conclusion. The chief source of discussion--whether or not undergraduates must be enrolled in some military or naval course in order to be eligible for athletics has now been settled affirmatively...
...would be difficult to imagine a situation more demoralized and subject to more conflicting forces than the existing one in Russia. The renewal of hostilities by the German forces complicates an almost hopeless chaos of internal revolution. Not content with the sowing of his propaganda in a country face to face with a great political crisis, the Prussian advances to seize those races which one by one are separating themselves from Bolshevik domination. Germany dares to take upon itself the protection of a new democracy, the Ukraine. A striking anomaly...
...Saturday night, when the sailors won by a score of 3 to 1. The Navy septet showed good teamwork and were very fast at following up their shots, while the University players showed a lack of team-play, due to their long lay-off, and found it extremely difficult to shoot the puck past the clever Navy goal-guard...
...several months ago and the Fund still lacks $4,000 of the promised sum. There is only one thing that can be done and that is pay up immediately. At this time when rent and Bursar bills are stretching our credit to the limit, any extra payment is a difficult demand to make. Nevertheless, those who have pledged must remit immediately, or somebody else will have to make up the shortage out of his pocketbook. We have to send in to the Y. M. C. A. the amount we promised them,--we do not want to admit that the University...
...they incurred to make them good within reasonable time. It would mean a good deal of extra work to organize another committee to chase up these overdue contributions. Moreover, the University Y. M. C. A. representative, Arthur Beane, is kept continually busy, as is his secretary, by so many difficult tasks, that it is unfair to place him in the predicament he finds himself in at present, because he is responsible to the national Y. M. C. A. for the University's entire pledged subscription...