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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...amendment to the class constitution concerning the method of conducting class elections will not be put before the class, as it applies to the voting in the fall of the Sophomore and Junior years only. This amendment, which was passed by the Sophomores at their smoker last Wednesday, will be voted upon by the Freshmen next week, when they hold their smoker...
News that the Athletic authorities of the University have reconsidered the stand which they took last week and have voted to place track on an equal footing with baseball and crow by re-establishing a training table for that sport, is decidedly satisfactory to those who were anxious to see a real handicap removed from a team of proven ability. This reversal of opinion may be attributed in no small degree to efforts of undergraduates, who, feeling keenly that an essential spirit of unity in the team was being seriously endangered, brought the authorities to a realization of the track...
When Marshal Foch began demonstrating his transcendant military genius on the Western Front last summer and the whole civilized world looked to him as the one power that could crush the German machine, a few men looked ahead and wondered if America would ever have the chance to welcome this heroic figure to its shores. We found ourselves thinking of the glorious reception he would receive from a grateful people. And now Representative Julius Kahn states that Foch is making plans to visit the United States within a few months. His coming will give this nation an opportunity to show...
...been of the best, but there are ignorant men who believe that this country deserves most of the credit for victory. They speak of Paris being saved by "the grace of God and a few marines" and forget the heroic struggle and dreadful suffering of France during the last four years. When Foch comes here, we must make every effort to show our recognition of the fact that for forty-eight months we prospered under the protection of his country and of Great Britain and that it was his supreme leadership that made possible the splendid showing of our troops...
...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...