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Harvard teams have been organized on a new basis in this year of war. Athletic policy has been guided by a consideration of the greatest good for a maximum number of men. Last fall the informal system was introduced, but has since been discarded as a failure, as the teams seemed to lack the spirit of co-ordination so essential to victory. The Princeton games placed the system of combined military training and sport on trial, and the result has so far been highly satisfactory. The quality of the teams may be lower than the general average of those...
Five more mid-year make-up examinations will be held on Monday with a like number to follow on Tuesday. They will take place as usual in Sever 5 at 2 o'clock...
...College Office is arranging to reduce to a minimum the number of conflicts which may arise between the coming special final examinations and the various athletic activities scheduled for the week of May 4 to 11 inclusive...
...chorus of jubilation from those who will have to take them. They would obviously prefer to vanish from Cambridge without going through the tortures of these tests. It would not be possible nor right, however, for the Office to distribute credit for the year broadcast to such a large number of men without examining them as long as our scheme of education is based on the examination system. To be consistent with principle these tests, however unpleasant, are absolutely necessary...
...year ago there were building or authorized for our Navy 123 vessels: and then hundreds of submarine chasers and other small-type vessels and a number of destroyers have been completed, and contracts are now existing for more than 900 vessels. We have the greatest wireless service in the world, stretching from Alaska to Panama and to Hawaii and the Philippines.--TREASURY DEPT., BUREAU OF PUBLICITY...