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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Class Day Committee announces that undergraduates may now obtain one Stadium and one Yard ticket free at the Co-operative. The free Stadium ticket, however, is good only when used by undergraduates marching with their class. Regular Stadium tickets are still on sale for $1.50. Also tickets for all the events of Class Day are on sale at the following prices: Yard, 35 cents; Stadium, $1.50; and Memorial...
...first time in many years the Class Day program will contain no Ivy Oration. The usual conditions this year caused by the war have also necessitated other changes in the festivities for that day. H. Wentworth '17, the Ivy Orator, is unable to be present, for the cannot obtain leave of absence from the Officers' Training Corps at Fort Sheridan. In place of his oration the Regiment Band has been engaged to give a short concert of music especially suited to the occasion...
...addition to the two machine guns which have been presented to the corps, a third gun of the same type has been procured through the activity of P. P. Gould of Company A. With the support of a large subscription from the first battalion it was possible to obtain from the Colt Company a weapon of the model of 1917. This gun was tried out on the range yesterday afternoon at 300 yards and proved to be entirely suitable. Before the companies leave Wakefield each man will have received instruction in the assembling and dissembling, the loading, firing and practical...
...have prevented to the best of our ability our boys from enlisting until they are of age. There will be, therefore, next year about 50 men who will still want naval training. Added to this number we hope that there will be many Freshmen. We, therefore, plan first to obtain a boat of sufficient size to enable us to go to sea in the afternoon and teach the boys the practical side of navigation...
...pointed out, unless someone has been deceived, such an army might be raised overnight from only those who are most eager to volunteer. Entirely disregarding that now historic million which was to spring to arms in the same short time, there were two hundred thousand men eagerly anxious to obtain admission to the officers' training camps. Their pristine patriotism may not be considered to have lost its gloss. A like number of men volunteered for service under Mr. Roosevelt. Combining these two, we have four hundred thousand...