Word: evens
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Each succeeding Freshman class has taken an increasing interest in singing, last year's Jubilee being perhaps the most successful yet held. Men who didn't know they could sing, or who even thought they couldn't, have learned that one can fall far short of operatic standards of vocal performance and yet enjoy singing. The Freshman Jubilee does not aim to educate nor does it intend to force men to sing against their will; it only hopes to lay the foundation for a life-long enjoyment of one of the most natural and delightful of the few co-operative...
...course admit the great, the pressing, need of a new gymnasium building to take the place of Hemenway, long antiquated and outgrown. Even more obvious is the ardent wish of every Harvard man that in time there be erected a fitting and enduring memorial which may ever stand as a concrete tribute to those who fell--a tribute that will recall to successive generations of Harvard men the glory and honor due that gallant group of three hundred and four soldiers and sailors...
...reason, which the "Illustrated" seems to have overlooked, that a gymnasium is not suitable as a memorial. No matter, how elaborate or how modern it may be, no matter what care is spent on planning and construction, any such building will eventually become antiquated and useless--even as Hemenway is today, although when the latter was completed in 1879 it was revolutionary in its magnificence. In the "Harvard Herald" of October 2, 1883, we read "It can fairly be said that the new Harvard Gymnasium has been the parent or sponsor of almost all the modern college gymnasiums...
...September 14th, 1918, in the attack near Revillon, when his Battalion advanced, this officer in command of a platoon of Company M. 308th Infantry, continued to lead his men though wounded. By his won personal courage and example, he urged them forward through enemy wire to their objective. Even when mortally wounded, he continued to direct the consolidation of his platoon's position, refusing medical attention in faver of others who had a better chance to live...
...were originally in the class as Freshmen, or have since joined, shall be considered Seniors as far as Class Day is concerned, regardless of their scholastic standing. A man may only be a Junior according to his standing at the College Office, or he may not even be in College, but if he has ever been a member of the Class of 1919 he should realize that this is his Class Day and that at all future reunions on Class Day, he will be part of the Class...