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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fourth successive time Cornell University won the annual track meet of the I. C. A. A. A. A. on Franklin Field, Philadelphia, last Saturday afternoon. The Ithaca team rolled up a total of 47 points, the nearest competitor, the University of Pittsburg, which was entered in the meet for the first time, making but 30 points. Dartmouth came in third with 28 points, and Princeton followed in fourth place with a score...
...Emmet '19, captain of the University crew, was an easy winner in the annual single sculling race for the Carrol Cup, which was held yesterday afternoon over the mile course from the Cottage Farm to the Harvard Bridge. He had a lead of nearly three lengths over his nearest competitor. Second place was closely contested, R. Jenney '21 winning by a narrow margin from C. F. Batchelder '20. T. D. Gillett '19 was fourth...
...statement that men will be commissioned in the Field Artillery upon the completion of the R. O. T. C. course, Yale has succeeded in gaining no such recognition as this. The nearest approach to this is the fact that seniors having 'satisfactorily completed the course' will be classified as officer candidates and sent to a replacement camp immediately upon graduation...
...suburbs of Cologne." Heretofore they have flown over Cologne and left it unscathed, in spite of the fact that it is the most logical place in the German empire for reprisals for the wanton attacks on London and Paris. Of all the large German cities Cologne is nearest to the British hangars; it is much nearer than Mannheim, which has repeatedly received the favors of the Allied aerial visitors; and it is the capital of Rhenish, Prussia. It is possible that Cologne has been spared hitherto at the request of the French, out of consideration for the staunchly Catholic character...
...ballots and to obviate delay and congestion. Voting will be in Lower Massachusetts, not in Harvard Hall, as heretofore. There will be separate doorways for entrance and exit, both facing Harvard Hall. Voters will enter by the right-hand doorway as one faces Massachusetts, that is, the doorway nearest the Johnson Gate. Arranged in a semi-circle about the entrance and exit, both facing Harvard Hall, will be six gateways. Voters will be divided alphabetically, according to their surnames, into six groups without regard to class or degree. Each group will be assigned a particular gateway through which alone...