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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Yale authorities have communicated with Harvard as to the desirability of sending a challenge to the two English universities, and Professor Mendel has written Oxford and Cambridge asking whether they will consider a challenge for a meet in England next summer with Yale and Harvard. The Yale Board of Control voted last month to sanction a meet with the English universities even if Harvard should find it impossible to participate...
...Union has been fortunate in having as its speakers this fall some of the most distinguished men of the English speaking nations. But perhaps none of them have received or have deserved to received a warmer welcome than that which will be extended tonight to Professor Copeland...
Having passed through the terrors of war, we hopefully face the even more perilous times of reconstruction ahead. Reconstruction as well as charity begins at home. And where can we be better "reconstructed" in our ideas of the possibilities of the English language than by listening to Professor Copeland? May his readings continue until the "Letters from France" and the "Hero's Couch" are but memories of the distant past...
...contest for a prize of $500 was open to any student, past or present of English 47 or 47a at Harvard or Radcliffe, and was won by Miss Rachel Barton Butler, a member of Professor Baker's course from 1915 to 1917. Her play was a comedy entitled, "Mamma's Affair...
...discussions of the values of the different strokes now in use have been held this fall. Dr. Paul Withington '09, who acted in an advisory capacity during the fall season, is one of the strongest backers of the change and bases his arguments on the advantages of the English oarsmen in the Inter-Allied race at Paris last spring because of the use of a stroke which is practically standard throughout the British Isles...