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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Reports of a somewhat vague and inconclusive nature come from Harvard University to the effect that there is less smoking and pool-playing, and less purchasing of reading matter as well. The returns are from the Harvard Union, and they may simply be taken to indicate a decline in the patronage of that large and democratic social organization. But the Union is representative of the undergraduate microcosm. Life in the larger world is more serious than it was before August, 1914. "The cigarette," wrote George Frederick Watts, "is the handmaid of idleness," and the diminishing consumption of cigarettes may mean...
There are to be six positions on the commission. It is rumored that other probable appointees are Daniel L. Roper, former assistant postmaster-general, and William S. Culbertson, who has had much experience with South American trade. Other doubtful reports are to the effect that Miss Ida M. Tarbell will be invited to serve on the commission. It is understood that President Wilson is particularly anxious to have the commission take up the question of changed economic conditions after the war. The personnel of the board will probably be announced this week, so that the appointments may be sent...
...usual meteorological trend--snow, wind, waves, sunset and allied phenomena--but on the whole the range is reasonably wide and most of the authors are trying honestly enough to express what they themselves have felt and seen. There is no conscious imitation and very little allusion. But the total effect is conventionality. We get no new ideas, no new sensations, not even a shock, except perhaps in Mr. Paulding...
...strong second team this year than ever before. A schedule of nine games has already been completed including a number of trips. For the first time, it is hoped that the Yale second team is to be played as the last game of the season, and arrangements to that effect are now being made...
These observations are called forth by an item in the DePauw Daily to the effect that Ambassador Sato, the newly appointed Japanese representative at Washington, is a DePauw alumnus of the class of '81. Sato succeeds Ambassador Chinda, also DePauw '81, at Washington...