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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...program for compulsory physical training for Freshmen which has just been announced by the Faculty and now awaits final action by the Board of Governors, cannot fail to meet the approval of those who are interested in securing a higher physical standard among college men. That there is an urgent need for a different system of such training, in which undergraduates must participate, has been conclusively shown by the records of military service examinations throughout the United States...
...clearing 5 feet, 9 inches. H. C. Flower '19 found stiff competition in the broad jump against Johnson of Michigan and Le Gendre of Georgetown, but won third place by a jump of 22 feet, 8 3-4 inches. Myers' record in the pole-vault was just 6 inches higher than that of R. W. Harwood '20 who tied with three others for third. In the shot-put and hammer-throw G. A. Clark '19 and A. Stevens '19 added to the University's total by placing fourth and fifth respectively. Braden, Yale's captain, was forced to yield first...
Seniors are reminded that the first application for Class Day tickets at reduced rates closes this afternoon at six, o'clock. No application will be received after that time. The next application at higher prices, which has been previously announced, will close on Saturday, may 31st. After that time, Seniors may apply on the regular graduate application blanks, but will not receive the reduced rates. Blanks for the second Senior application have been placed in Leavitt & Peirce...
...Harvard has for years supported several organizations of the National Guard, and in the last war hundreds of her men went out as commissioned officers from these organizations. If these men could have had the benefit of higher military education in College it would not have been necessary to send them to Plattsburg and Summer Schools...
...introduction and in order to expose to full public view the news peg on which every newspaper story is supposed to hand, let it be declared that Harvard is doing itself and higher education in general a distinctly good turn in allowing any department to require general final examinations as a prerequisite for graduation. Incidentally, it is also doing the students a good turn, although it is not inconceivable that there might be some difficulty in getting the students to admit it. Boston Transcript