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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Captain R. E. Gross '19 will play his last game today, since he leaves next week for the fourth officers' training camp. His departure will be a great loss for he is a heavy hitter and covers a great deal of ground at shortstop. His leadership and aggressiveness, however, will be the qualities most missed by the nine...
...many of our best men leaving next week for Government service, today's contest affords the undergraduate the one big game of the season. At no time in the near future will intercollegiate athletics be on as high a plane as now. Where today our team already feels the loss of many, next week will see a considerable decrease in its strength,. Let everyone, therefore, take this opportunity of attending a game, which is not only a Yale-Harvard game, but which marks the high tide of war-time sport...
Despite the loss of members of the committee, work in preparing for the celebration is progressing satisfactorily...
What are you supposed to be is a training school for officers. If your country has need of you, it is primarily as future officers. The war is not going to be over in a few weeks; there will be, as you know, a terrible loss of officers. Look at the British casualty lists for the last few weeks, and note the proportion of officers killed and wounded. It is by preparing yourselves as fully as possible to fulfil that function eventually that you will show the most intelligent realization of your duty. If you go and drive an ambulance...
Despite a bad loss at Cornell last Saturday, the M. I. T. track men defeated the University runners in the Stadium yesterday afternoon by the decisive score of 67 points to 50. In all the dashes and distance runs the Technology team was clearly far superior to its opponents, and it was only in the weights and jumps that the Crimson men showed to good advantage...