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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Major General Wood, who is commanding the Department of the East, arrived in Boston yesterday. Coming out to Cambridge about 11 o'clock, he conferred with President Lowell for an hour. In the afternoon he inspected one of the companies of the R. O. T. C., and later attended the military conference of the six New England governors which began in the State House at 4 o'clock. This conference, convened at Governor McCall's invitation, discussed programs of military preparation and public safety which should be adopted in the event of war between the United States and Germany...
...conference the following governors were present: Marcus H. Holcomb, of Connecticut; Carl E. Milliken '99, of Maine; Samuel W. McCall, of Massachusetts; Henry W. Keyes '87, of New Hampshire; R. Livingston Beeckman, of Rhode Island; and Horace F. Graham, of Vermont. Captain Cordier as one of the aides to General Wood also attended the meeting. The governors were accompanied by their adjutant generals who took part in the conference...
This explains why Harvard and the other colleges are making such elaborate preparations for an emergency which is sure to arise if war should come. They realize that for them war may mean a general cessation of academic instruction, the turning of dormitories into barracks and of athletic fields into drill grounds. They know that the best service the colleges could render would be to transform themselves at once into so many training schools for officers. At Cambridge and elsewhere the authorities have foreseen this eventuality and are ready for it if it should come. --Boston Herald...
Selections from editions of the works of Izaac Walton and John Bunyan will be on exhibition in the Treasure Room of Widener Library tomorrow, Friday and Saturday. This exhibition is being put on especially in connection with Professor Copeland's class in English 45, but the general public is also invited. Attention is called to the fact that of the 170 odd editions of "The Complete Angler," which have been published, the Fearing collection given to the College in 1915 by Daniel Butler Fearing, A.M. '11, contains more than 160, ranging in size from the "thumb edition" measuring only...
...meetings the performance of individual runners is discussed and ways and means put into effect for bettering the same. Thus recently a series of talks by graduates based on actual racing have been instituted. The first of these given by Herbert Jaques '11 recently was highly successful. The general policy of the team in regard to its intercollegiate activities is defined and attempts made to expand the field of activity. Thus this winter a triangular meet with Pennsylvania and Dartmouth and a dual meet with Worces- ter were staged...