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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Many star players are included in the make-up of the Holy Cross nine. The outfield is especially strong, with Captain Bowen, who is the strongest hitter in the nine as well as being a versatile fielder, and Daly and Statz, veterrans of former seasons. Daly held the same position in left field last year, while Statz, formerly a short-stop, is filling the position left vacant in right field. When Captain O'Neill graduated last June...
...system of Senior advisers, then, undoubtedly fills a need which otherwise cannot be met. It is the duty of the Senior to make the incoming man feel that he has a friend in the University with whom he can talk over the perplexing incidents of the new life to which he is becoming accustomed. The experience of the upperclassman is sure to prove invaluable in gulling the uninitiated toward a wise course in studies and other college activities...
...reply, there is a halfpenny worth of bread which should not be cast in vain upon the waters. The news writing in the CRIMSON seems to call for an improvement in style. The short, matter of fact sentences allow little room in which to go wrong, but they also make it impossible to be interesting. More color, more space, more frivolity, more careless handling of the powers that be--a premium in the competitions on sprightliness,--while revolutionary would give the CRIMSON more life. The proposed increase in the size of the page will give opportunity for such work...
...lectures; that they are undergraduates; and that they have not long here below in this college world. When the CRIMSON editor has worked through the grades of his apprenticeship and reaches the presidency of the paper, he has one short half-year of life and then passes on to make way for a successor; his skill is necessarily gained late. These are reasons why most undergraduate publications have only streaks of success and long waste spaces of desolation and boredom; and conversely, the writing of graduate students and younger members of the instructing staff gives the Harvard Magazine an advantage...
Changes in curricula are numerous. In many institutions new emphasis is being placed on foreign trade courses, and Spanish has come into wider favor. Some are teaching navigation for the first time. In nearly all stress is being laid on the courses which make for better citizenship and service to the State rather than for academic scholarship. These changes are more markedly a result of the war than the changes in entrance requirements. An acute shortage of teachers is apparent in some quarters. In practically all the institutions special preparations are being made to admit returned soldiers...