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...Harvard Club of Boston will give a reception to all University men who served on the Mexican border as members of the Massachusetts State Militia, in Harvard Hall at the Club Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. It is planned to have several of the higher officers of the militia and regular army among the speakers. A large number of the 51 University men who were at the border and many members of the Club will be present...
According to figures just given out by the Associated Press, 15 fatalities occurred during the 1916 football season, which closed with the Thanksgiving Day games. There were 15 deaths last year, 13 in 1914; 14 in 1913, and 13 in 1912. The number of fatalities this season, though higher than the average of the past few years, in no way reflects against intercollegiate football, since only one of the victims was a college player. In almost every case death resulted because of physical unfitness and not a single life was lost where a physician's examination was demanded before...
...relation to other countries after the war but I cannot close without expressing the belief that the war will bring a new life to all the nation's engaged in it. May we not hope that the universal striving for inner reconstruction, the newly-awakened longing for a higher civic consciousness, the ideal of a national life devoted to the cultivation of the highest powers of the individual, will finally quench the blind passions and violent hatreds inflamed by the war, so that a regenerated Europe will more firmly-than ever before, believe in international brotherhood...
This reciprocal influence we often lack at Harvard. Men in higher courses are likely to receive it, but it does not filter down to the ordinary undergraduate. The advisor system has usually failed to provide it. Other colleges have tried the plan of holding departmental smokers where the teachers can talk informally with their students and where the flow of ideas is unrestricted. This, of course, offers only an opening, which he must follow...
...reception by the Harvard Club of Boston in Harvard Hall next Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. Many members of the Club will be present and an enjoyable evening is planned. Refreshments will be served and several speakers will be heard. It is expected that, among others, the higher military officers of the militia and the regular army will speak...