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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...substitute it has not spoken. Congress, under the emotion of a great European war, put into effect the National Defense Act, and in so doing authorized the President of the United States to introduce military training into civil educational institutions; the War Department is now showing what this may mean, but the general public has hardly known what was going...
Occasionally an undergraduate stops to wonder how much the college will mean to him after he has left it and passed into its wilderness of alumni. And sometimes it occurs to him that when the faces in the yard have changed and the buildings seem strange and unnatural that Harvard will forget him. At those times he fears that graduates' day will be peopled with an indifferent and a disinterested student body who have forgotten him and his friends, who are careless of the traditions which he once guarded...
...decision of the Committee as regards Polo will mean the definite establishment of a sport which has been in a precarious financial position. This fall the members of last year's championship team, all of whom returned to the University this year, voted to maintain Polo for Harvard at their own expense. The expense of equipment, ponies, and a playing field have been a heavy burden on the players, although it is believed by Captain C. F. Clark, coach of the Crimson four, that the game will amply support itself if stands are erected...
...first place, the shortened season would mean that the excitement would mount up over four games instead of eight, and so would be less than it is now by about 40 per cent., especially since the public and the papers would have no national or intersectional championship to be on the lookout...
...appeared in your issue of December 5. This editorial is unfair in its inferences and insinuations and illogical in its reasonings and conclusions. You apparently meant to have your readers infer that I wrote an article for the Bulletin for the purpose of "urging the need" (whatever that may mean) of enlarging the Stadium or building a new one, the truth being that my article was written to describe the distribution of seats for the Yale game, and to explain the problem involved, and concluded with a brief statement of facts bearing on what the student body and the graduates...