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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...planned to make the Carnival this year the largest ever held in America. Thanks to the generosity of the Rev. J. E. Johnson, honorary president of the club, it will be subsidized by endowment, thus making possible the proper attention to all details. The intercollegiate meet, including ski and snowshoe dashes, cross-country runs and a ski-jump, will be the feature of the Carnival. As students in all American and Canadian colleges are invited, excellent competition is expected. Prizes in all events are offered by the club. All competitors will be guests of the club during their stay...
...Crim, another 440 runner, and Priester. From the 1918 team, Hickman and Shelton are good sprinters. With Starr, Gubb and Lukens out again for the hurdles, and with good second-string material in Millard, Lyford and Acheson, as well as Lasser and Watt, sophomores, Cornell should be stronger than ever in these events...
Students who witnessed the battle said the fighting was marked by the fiercest scrimmage they had ever seen, but the fatality and large number of accidents were due to the slippery field, they declared. About 400 freshmen and 200 sophomores took part in the battle...
...making the award the chairman commented on the high character of the speaking done by both sides and expressed the opinion that the debate was the best interclass contest ever held. The one fault in the match was a tendency of both wings to avoid the point at issue, due to the faculty wording of the proposition, in which many loopholes were found. The affirmative stated that there were three possible courses open to the United States: either to continue the policy of exportation of arms and foodstuffs, or to place an embargo on such exportation, or to enter...
Pillars of fire and other projectiles are periodically hurled at the endowed universities for their conservatism; they are ever and anon charged with eating out of the hands of "big business," and are "arraigned" for supposed intellectual subservience. The vitriolic young men, seeking publicity, who make these charges, conveniently forgot that they are often allowed to make their denunciations in college buildings, and then are invited to speak again. They forget also that American "big business" men were as strongly opposed to the retention of certain pro-German professors in the University as they possibly could be to the employment...