Word: major
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Before referring the matter, the Committee discussed the question and considered the recommendations of the Student Council that a war-time "H" of slightly smaller size be given to all members of major and minor teams who should be considered eligible for insignia by the Council. Dean Briggs, Dean Yeomans, Captain F. J. Moore '93, C. H. Pennypacker '88, of the Boston Latin School, and A. F. Tribble '19, the five members present, decided that no decision could now be made, as Tribble was the only undergraduate member attending. The men in whose hands the question of giving insignia...
...last Athletic Committee meeting of the year will be held this evening for the purpose of discussing and acting upon the question of awarding letters to the University teams which competed in major and minor sports this spring. A more definite decision on the status of athletics during the next college year will also be made, and the appointment of captains and managers for the fall teams considered...
Fine in tone and temper and a soldierly example is the brief speech of Major General Leonard Wood at Camp Mills to the officers of the 89th Division: the men he has trained...
...University Summer Camp. There is no doubt that the small size of this number is largely due to the same deadly habit of procrastination that impels an undergraduate invariably to hand in a thesis in the last half-hour of the allotted time; according to the recent order of Major Flynn such men, if they wait after next Friday, will merely find themselves debarred from positions as officers or non-coms, when the new companies are organized. Their cases merit no concern...
...exercises were opened with prayer by Bishop Lawrence, after which Major Higginson made a brief speech. The principal address of the day was made by Lieutenant Morize, who spoke at some length on the added significance of Memorial Day this year, and the lessons we must learn from our dead. He showed how the men who have given their lives to their country teach us not only how to die, but also how to live. "The simile of one runner handing on the torch to the next, never letting the flame die out, is ever true," he declared...