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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Class Day was started in 1760 by the election of one members of the Senior Class to deliver a valedictory address to the college, in Latin. It is interesting to note that at the first meeting to choose a Valedictorian, every members of the class brought a bottle of wine in his pocket. History relates there was "disorder...
...attributed in no small degree to efforts of undergraduates, who, feeling keenly that an essential spirit of unity in the team was being seriously endangered, brought the authorities to a realization of the track team's plight by a clear presentation of the subject. It is gratifying to note that the table is to be resumed at once, and we feel confident that its benefits will promptly and amply justify its creation...
...University Committee last night, W. L. W. Field, Executive Chairman of the New England, Committee for schools and colleges, said that he was pleased with the amount of the subscriptions, but that the number of individual purchasers was not sufficient. He emphasized the fact that a $50 note can be purchased by paying $5 now, $5 in July, and $10 a month for the four following months. Mr. Field said that he hoped that every member of the University would subscribe, making a unanimous quota...
...into the mysteries of chemistry, or engineering sciences. In a university such as this there is certainly room for a new branch of learning; and if we are to take up a subject, it is infinitely to our advantage to have it well taught. Secondly it is important to note that the advent of the Artillery School will in no way disrupt the progress of courses in the University through conflicts, inasmuch as the drills which have, in the past, come at most inopportune hours and necessitated constant changing from mufti to olive drab and back again, have now been...
...first time the opportunities for broadening study and advanced research offered in her ancient schools and universities. There is reason to believe that not a few collegians who first landed on her shores equipped with "tin hat" and rifle intend to arrive next time armed with "mortar board" and note-book. To such men, the American University Union will provide as valuable and as necessary a nucleus of home influence in time of peace as it has in time of war. It is to be hoped that the trustees of the Union will find it possible to perpetuate an institution...