Word: holding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Dadmun's team is scattered, while the Informals hold the center of a neo-athletic stage. No longer do the colleges reign supreme in the football world, for the Service terms must be reckoned with. To see civilian meet solider is a noble sight, but still we yearn for our old foes. Let us hope that next year we may again see a University team marching down the field to Harvardiana and the cheers of Harvard's five thousand sons. Until that happens we wish the Informals the best of luck, hoping that next year they may be University material...
Owing to their absence from Cambridge, President and Mrs. Lowell will be unable to hold their usual Sunday reception for members of the University tomorrow...
...organize a University or class team, but an entirely new organization can be made among the small groups of men in the companies or battalions. If this plan is responded to with any enthusiasm and a keen rivalry springs up in the regiment, it should be possible to hold field days both this fall and next spring for athletic competitions...
...Percy '18 and W. H. Wheeler '18 were the only captains elected for the major sport teams of 1917-1918, and both hold commissions in Federal Service. Wheeler, who was to have been captain of the football team this fall, took the three-months course at Annapolis, and at the close was made an ensign in the Naval Reserve. Percy, hockey captain elect, is now a lieutenant in the Marines...
...guns, echeloned in depth, form an essential part of the defense. If, then, such pits can be made strong enough to resist all but the heaviest shells, and can be well camoufied, the resisting power would be very formidable. That the Germans have not made them powerful enough to hold back the English is evident, but they did cause considerable trouble. A strengthening of such-points of resistance would very likely make a fortress. How are such pits to be destroyed? Maybe the tanks will be equipped with heavier guns, so that they can amble up to a "pill...