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...University has concluded its affiliations with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and with the intention of making the best possible use of the endowment, the President and Fellows of Harvard have petitioned the trustees of the bequest to transfer the funds to Technology. This is certainly contrary to the letter, and, according to the trustees, to the spirit of Mr. Mackay's will, for the latter intended to build up a superior department of engineering under the sole control of the Harvard Faculty...
...Ambulance, are at present striving to do America's part at the front. The work in this unit has an especial appeal to the undergraduate be cause the unit is still small enough to emphasize the individual work and spirit with which undergraduates are so endowed. Below is a letter from Mr. Hoskier, who has been working in France since the war began, which will give all who are considering joining a frank opinion of what is needed...
...Meyer '79 will be among the principal speakers at the Congress of Constructive Patriotism, which is to be held by the National Security League in Washington on January 25, 26 and 27. The subject of their addresses will be "America's Position as a World Power." A letter on "Constructive Patriotism," by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt '80 will be read. Elihu Root, LL.D., '07, will speak on "America's Present," and Samuel Gompers, head of the American Federation of Labor, and Frederick Winsor '93, headmaster of Middlesex School, will address the Congress on "Preparedness." The one hundred thousand members...
...appeal is being made for new, worn or resoled shoes for the peasants in France who have been afflicted by the war, by Mrs. Winthrop, of 38 Beacon street, Boston. She has received a letter from Madame Nina Duryea, who has just returned from Raen l'Etape, Vosges, describing the piteous condition of the peasants there with their homes in ashes and their feet bare. Anyone wishing to contribute may send shoes to the above address and they will be forwarded to the Secours Duryea, Paris...
Richard Clark Cooke '18, of Newton Centre, was elected captain of the University association football team for 1917 by the 14 letter men at Notman's yesterday afternoon. Cooke played on the team one year at Andover, and captained his Freshman team his first year in College. Last year he secured a place on the University team and this year was the strongest player on the offence. His work was brilliant and sure and he was the team's heaviest scorer during the season...