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...exhibitions or competitions which it might deem advisable to include. This means that military drills and military athletic events such as wall scaling and grenade throwing may be on the program. It was decided also to hold exhibitions of javelin and discus throwing. Though there was the ever recurring discussion as to whether the hammer throw should be eliminated from the list, no such motion was carried, and the event will undoubtedly take place as usual...
...University has taken new interest in Brooks House. More men and more money have been directed to its work than ever before. These men are engaged in teaching the future citizens of our land, they are leading boys to better lives and understanding; they are entertaining the blind; they are supporting the poor at law; they are supplying the needy; they are indeed the builders of a better society. College men seem to have taken a new hold on the real problems of life. In their added interest and increased support is found the success of the institution...
...combat this dangerous situation, no thorough-going remedy has yet been put in operation. Food-saving campaigns to reduce consumption are not to be decried. But a community more actively engaged than ever before can not indefinitely reduce its diet without a loss in efficiency. Backyard gardens supply part of the demand for supplementary foods, but they do not relieve the crying need for staples. Appeals to the actual farmers only create irritation, since, with the labor and equipment available, they have always produced to the limit of their capacity in times of peace as in time...
...latest news from the College Office is thoroughly discouraging to those who have believed that Harvard undergraduates were putting their best efforts into work which becomes more necessary than ever because of the war. With a much smaller number of students, this year finds more than twice as many doing "officially unsatisfactory work." The number of men on probation is greater in proportion than ever before. What can this mean to the outside world but that Harvard men are unwilling to do their...
Governor McCall has been a hearty advocate of "Smileage" ever since the idea was taken over by the Government in an attempt to relieve the necessity for amusement at the camps and cantonments. He appointed a special council for the sole purpose of stimulating interest in "Smileage" throughout the State of Massachusetts, and he will take up the subject from the point of view of the civil government...