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...eleven will be lost by graduation, the greater part of the "H" men will be in College next fall. There will be eligible several good men, who could not play this season on account of academic standing, as well as some good material from the championship Freshman eleven. In fact the only positions which are really left unfilled are at centre, quarterback and fullback...
President Eliot spoke last Saturday before the Massachusetts State Child Labor Committee on the education of boys and girls as skilled laborers. He emphasized the fact that the rules of labor unions in this country limit the number of apprentices to far below the natural demand for skilled labor, and are consequently harmful, as they allow only a certain limited number of boys and girls to become skilled laborers. President Eliot discussed the perfection to which the German system of trade schools has been carried. In these schools compulsory education lasts until the age of sixteen, while in the American...
...Haughton has developed a team, which, although it has progressed somewhat slowly, is now as good, if not the best team that Harvard has had in several years. In the early part of its schedule against the Maine teams the first eleven had little trouble in winning, and in fact had no really hard opponents until the Navy game, when it was outplayed completely. This was the first real test, and showed up some very apparent faults--weakness in defensive work and inability on the part of the backs to run with the ball. From that game on, the team...
...been decided not to take the University band to New Haven this year. Accordingly, a large military band will be obtained. The work of the University band thus far has been uniformly satisfactory, in fact, better than in former years, but it was thought advisable to secure a band for the Yale game at New Haven this year with a scope such as no amateur band possesses...
Freshman classes that play their football game with Yale at New Haven are denied one of the best factors in bringing the class into something like a definite unit in the early months of its career. There is no denying the fact that a Freshman class gains considerably more by standing on the side lines at a game with the Yale freshmen on Soldiers Field than by anything else until the first officers are elected and the class takes its place as an organization with the other classes. The class of 1912 is denied this opportunity but a substitute...