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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...were discouraged because they could not make the first team, and sank back to become athletic slackers when they were in college because they thought they were not good nough. They consider themselves good enough to go and fight their country's battles, however, and we, with our old system of athletics, in which we placed the premium on the specialized expert, have really denied them the physical training that they find so necessary now. Why should they sacrifice their lives if their lack of fitness makes the sacrifice not worth while...
Extensive changes in the locker room during the holidays will defer the opening of the Randolph Gymnasium for use by the University until Monday, January 7. The old lockers with which the building was originally equipped have been entirely replaced by lockers from the Hemenway Gymnasium. The difference in the style of the lockers gives an additional 100 lockers for use, so that the total number in the Gymnasium will be slightly over...
Phillips Brooks House will hold its annual "open house" entertainment for those who remain in Cambridge during the recess on Christmas night, beginning at 6 o'clock and lasting the entire evening. An old-fashioned Christmas entertainment before the open fire will be provided, and the usual apples, nuts, candy, doughnuts and cider will be served...
...machine, a duty that to me is as interesting as it is important in battle. Before I came over I had never heard of such a man, indeed it's been a succession of hearing, learning, and putting into practice new things, new methods of killing the enemy. The old fashioned all round infantryman is but a shade of past glories; today everyone is a specialist in some one particular thing, and informed in all things generally. Gas, with its terrifying results, trench mortars, automatic rifles, grenades, bayonets, wire entanglements, trenches, communication systems, aeroplanes,--what not? All have...
...sane world, "freedom of the sea" means what it did to Grotius: Beyond the shallows of the shore no nation claims control. To an obstinate old man, obsessed with that German war mania that has cost the world so much blood and so many tears, it means that in time of war no nation must have a sea power superior to Germany's or capable of coping with German aggression. Yet when Germans solemnly protest that they are fighting for the freedom of the seas, it is the Tirpitz kind of freedom that they have in mind. New York World...