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...authentic clue to the exact date of John Harvard's birth was found until recently, when historians found the following entry of his birth in the baptismal files of St. Saviour's Church, Southwark--"1607, November 29, John Harvye, S. of "Robt., a Butcher." Since it was the custom in the churches at that time to require the baptism of every child three days after its birth historians were led on the occasion of the 300th annivesary of John Harvard's birth to fix November 26th in the year 1607 as the correct date of his birth...
Yale is the home of miraculous "come-backs." There are many indications that she has at last climbed out of the lowly rut of former defeats and under the efficient guidance of a new coaching system has found again the drive and power that were once her victorious characteristics. The grit of Yale is universally know; it is in our power on Saturday to make the Harvard fighting spirit equally famed. The same fighting spirit that has animated Harvard's sons on the blood-stained battlefields of Europe must be shown on the football field and in the stands...
...college men for reserve officers, but on the contrary Harvard, living up to her traditional reputation, is carefully searching for the most efficient economical method of making young men capable of leading a command. After the authorities have diverged from the well-beaten paths traversed by everyone and have found a new and better method of obtaining the common object, Harvard will be found where she was last year in the van of the preparedness movement...
...been used at the battle of the Marne, at Ypres during the great second battle, and along the Yser Canal, on the Somme, at Verdun, at Hartmansweilerkopf, in Alsace and in the Balkans. Today on practically every front where the French troops are in action these cars will be found close behind the lines...
...response to hard work was very satisfactory, but on the technical side of the game the coaches found it more difficult to restore the fundamentals. The work is not yet completed, but it is conceded by almost every man who has followed Yale football for the past half dozen years that there has been considerable improvement in this respect...