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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...plans for the club's coming season are fairly well in shape, and represent a somewhat changed policy. There will be fewer concerts than formerly, but those which are given will be important. The principal fall events will be trips to New Haven for the dual concert with Yale, and to Fall River. In the spring, concerts will be given at the New York Harvard Club, and at Providence. Furthermore, another Intercollegiate Meet may be given in New York, and the Glee Club has been honored with an invitation to participate in the Apollo Club's April concert in Boston...
...fewer men have signed up this year than last. Help to make the book a success by signing up now. THE RED BOOK COMMITTEE...
Those who wish to see more rowing contests, on the theory that more races make for better crews and better sport, will approve the sending of the second University crew to the American Henley. No sport demands more strenuous training and yet has fewer formal contests than rowing--a condition that can be remedied by widening its scope. The resumption of interest and the re-entrance of a crew in the American Henley is good...
...Musical Review has uniformly escaped with fewer shafts sticking to its ribs than the others--but that is mainly because its reviewers have been too generous to strike an infant. Generally its reviews have been inconsequential because of the tendency of its critics to assume a fatherly attitude, and try to teach it to lisp. If any one desires to know an illustration, he may read H. K. Moderwell's review of a recent number...
...last few years for the advocate of peace. He mentioned the many wars which have been taking place, and deduced from these the forces which still are active in causing wars, and those whose activity is dying out. Dynastic wars are no longer found, and religious wars are becoming fewer. Wars for new territory are still prevalent, the war between Italy and Tripoli being an example; and wars caused by the ruling of a people by aliens still continue. Another potent cause of war is the neglect of the people by despotic governments...