Word: old
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...brought many changes in the daily life of the people. The college undergraduate has been equally affected and moves in a sphere unknown to the peaceful days of previous years. He has curtailed almost all activities which have no direct hearing on the present conflict. Old customs which had become Harvard's sacred traditions have passed out of existence. All this the undergraduate gladly accepts, knowing it to be the inevitable. Yet there is a danger that war hysteria may drive Americans to measures which are not marked by necessity. It is this consideration which demands reflection on the decision...
...students of the University who have become 21 years old since June 5 last must comply with this order. While divinity students and students of the Medical School are not liable to military service, they must register and then be exempted by their local boards. It is provided that all persons registered under the provisions of the Act of May 20 shall be placed at the bottom of the list of those liable to draft in the classes to which they are assigned under such rules as President Wilson may prescribe...
...Palmer Stadium its baptism of Harvard football. Five hundred undergraduates filled the flagship of the Fall River Fleet for one sleepless night and then enjoyed the Great White Way for an eve of celebration. Those days are but blissful memories; the Princeton games fortunately go on but without the old glamor. Today a baseball team without an "H" man on it and a tennis team which is only a reminder of the days when Williams, Caner and Washburn used to represent the University, are going to New Jersey to take up the fight where its predecessors left...
...this understanding that last year's Government school for commissioned officers, conducted at Harvard at the close of the R. O. T. C. session, and by all odds the best of its kind ever held in this country, was abandoned after only one lot of 550 of our officers, old and young, had received instruction in it. Now we know that there is no mind on earth capable of predicting how much time may be available for completing the training of units after they arrive in France. We see that the one right thing to do on this side...
...spring. Although there will probably be no regular book collection for the remainder of this year, it is desired that all men who have volumes which they will no longer need leave them at the Phillips Brooks House or else send a postal card stating that they have some old books which they are willing to have called for. Any text book used in any course this year is acceptable...