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...conventions of the Student Volunteer Movement are held every fourth year. In 1906, when the meeting was held at Nashville, Tennessee, the number of delegates was 4,235, of which 34 were from the University. This year representatives are expected from no less than 700 universities, colleges, and other institutions of learning in the United States and Canada. The Harvard delegation will consist of 28 from the five departments of the University: the College, Law, Medical, Divinity, and Graduate Schools...
...Boston Athletic Association will hold its annual indoor games in Mechanics Building, Boston, on Saturday evening, February 12. It is planned to hold a number of relay races between the eastern colleges. The classes of the University will also compete, as in former years, for the class relay championship...
...music for the three performances of "The Scarecrow," to be given by the Dramatic Club on December 7, 9, and 11, will be provided by the Pierian Sodality Orchestra. The opening number will be a dedication prologue, "The Scarecrow," written especially for the Dramatic Club by C. D. Clifton '12, leader of the orchestra. Unlike the overture to "The Promised Land," composed last fall by P. G. Clapp '09, this prologue will not so much provide a mere epitome of the theme of the play as attempt to picture the relations of the motives and characters of the drama proper...
...Athletic Association asks that accurate descriptions of garments and other articles lost at Soldiers Field on the Saturday of the Yale game should be mailed immediately to W. F. Garcelon, Graduate Treasurer, Harvard Athletic Association, Cambridge, as there are a number still to which the ownership has been proven. Those that have been identified will be returned during the week. In most cases, where the losers reside in Cambridge, or nearby, they will be invited to call at the association's office. In the other instances, where there is no doubt of the ownership, the articles will be shipped...
Since the close of the football season the press of the country has voiced a general demand for revision of the football rules. An undue number of severe injuries and the preponderance of mass plays are the features of the game which are most severely criticised. In the months following the season of 1905 a similar protest caused the Rules Committee to make radical reforms in the game; It seems likely that some changes must also be made this year to meet the expectations of those who are dissatisfied with present conditions...