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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...doubt fall below the standard of the past. There has been neither the material nor the training of times preceding the war. Military considerations have in all cases superseded the demands of effective practice. Nevertheless, there remain the fundamental attractions of every Yale-Harvard game. The teams are equal in strength; the spirit is there; the undergraduates feel that the time for adding to our string of victories has again come. We welcome Yale as our guests. With many of our best men leaving next week for Government service, today's contest affords the undergraduate the one big game...
Harvard has opened the enrolment lists for its camp to students and graduates of all colleges and to seniors in high and preparatory schools who expect to enter college in the fall. Moreover, and of equal importance, complete news has come in of the "New England College Military Camp," which will be conducted this summer at Williamstown, Mass., under the auspices of Amherst, Clark, Dartmouth, Trinity, Tufts, Wesleyan and Williams. It will be open upon the same terms to students and graduates of these colleges, as also to men who intend to enter them next fall, with the passage...
...assumed that every undergraduate intends to do some useful work this summer. Never have the opportunities been so plentiful or so pressing. The need for labor on the farms and in the shipyards is of equal value with the need of trained men for the Army. Any one who does not render help in some way is a slacker no less surely than the draft resister or the deserter...
...next year's schedule of training for the University R. O. T. C. will quell any fears in this regard. It is a source of gratification that Harvard's plans for more military work now equal, in the matter of time devoted to drills, the plans at New Haven. It is a source of greater satisfaction that the Harvard Faculty plans next year to increase the effectiveness of the Harvard unit as an officers' training corps...
...true that since January 6 of this year there has been no single week in which the total losses of British ships have been equal to the average weekly number since the ruthless submarine warfare began. It is true also that Germany's threats of destroying British trade within a year have not been fulfilled, or anything like fulfilled. Nevertheless the figures now given as to the world's shipping show that the loss by submarines is serious; that the new shipping launched is not keeping up with the losses; and that the submarine will be a continuing menace until...