Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...upon just what the desire of our collegiate authorities is: do they wish their representative teams to play the game up to the hilt, or to play bumble puppy? There was a time when Harvard's elevens and crews under nondescript coaching systems lost to Yale with doleful frequency. Later, some serious attention was devoted to the conduct of athletics at Cambridge with a resultant systemization and rigidity of control. Ergo a lessening percentage of defeats on field, diamond, stream, etc. Which epoch was more beneficial in its effects upon the pride, morale and scholastic incentive of the Harvard undergraduate...
Cecil Rhodes established scholarships in Germany to bring promising young Teutons to Oxford in the hope of creating an international good-fellowship between the two empires. Ten years later the breaking out of war seemed to disprove the practicability of his theory. But only forty Germans made use of this opportunity and all of these were personally selected by the Kaiser. The future success of the plan elsewhere cannot therefore be judged by the situation with regard to Germany...
...clock. New students entering or returning to either the College or Engineering School, who have not been in residence during the past term, will be required to register between 9 and 6 o'clock on Friday, March 28, at some other place, which will be announced later...
Lieutenant Ralph Guy White, L. '16 died July 21, 1918, at Field Hospital No. 1, of wounds received on the Soissons Front. He entered the service April 13, 1917, and received his commission seven days later. Lieut, White sailed with the 26th Division in September, 1917, and went into action near Soissions in February, 1918. In March he was ordered away from the front, but returned again in July. He was Mortally wounded July 19 by machine gun fire...
...chosen until men of proved ability can be selected. A business staff, with W. F. Davidson '20 and Alan Burroughs '20 temporarily at the head, is to take charge of the publication of the paper, the articles being obtained by contribution. A few men of recognized ability will later be selected from the contributors to form an honorary advisory board whose judgment will be taken in selecting the articles for publication. The men serving on this committee are bound not to publish their own work if unbiased judges consider other contributions to possess equal merit...