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Altogether it is a rare tribute to American education and the fundamental soundness of its system that this first year after the war finds it in such a genuinely healthy condition...
...year ago the colleges were disorganized by the necessities of war and the changes they had to make to meet the demand for officers' training camps. As educational institutions they had almost ceased to function. They were military camps first and colleges afterward...
...Harvard Aero Club will hold its first formal banquet of the Year in Boston during the second week in January. Arrangements are now being made to have several men of great aeronautical prominence address this gathering, but no definite plans have yet been formulated...
...Sunday afternoon at 4 P. M. Professor F. N. Robinson will speak on Chaucer and his Contemporaries. All members of the University are invited to attend. This is the first of a series of Sunday afternoon talks on books and authors to be given in the Treasure Room in the course of the winter...
During the war he served for a time as boatswain on the U. S. S. Virginia, seeing foreign service in that capacity. On the return of the Virginia he was transferred to the First Naval District, where he acted as head swimming instructor. A resident of Brookline, Sutherland has long been a member of the Brookline Swimming Club...