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...military service of many of our students on the Mexican Border. Several colleges retarded their opening because of the epidemic. It is a satisfaction to report that the decision of the Harvard authorities to open on time, made after careful deliberation and upon expert advice, was vindicated. Only one student contracted poliomyelitis throughout the college year, and it is probable that he did not contract the disease in Cambridge. Some 45 men were allowed to register late because they were held in the militia by the difficulty with Mexico. In nearly every instance their previous records were such...
...Naval Radio School. This latter organization is under the direction of T. W. Watson, coach of last year's Brookline High team, who has material for a very strong team. At their practice this afternoon, the informals will have a scrimmage with the Radio seven. W. W. Rice '18, one of the fastest University forwards, is now the left wing of the Arena septet, and played a strong game against the Navy Yard team on Saturday...
...idea of romance in war is closely associated with single combat and justly so. There is something splendid about two individuals facing one another; certainly much more than in hordes of men joining battle. There are surely many heroic encounters taking place in the infantry, but we cannot hear of these so easily. Aviation at present is a service where single combat must be the feature. Our peculiar interest in it may be the result of its infancy, for the new holds much charm for us. And yet trench fighting does not thrill us in the same way, in spite...
...itself a scientific achievement of a high order demanding at every phase the exercise of first-rate engineering skill. Indeed, the whole machinery of offence and defence requires for its development and upkeep a vast amount of scientific knowledge, and success or failure may well fall to one side or the other according to the relative strength or weakness of the expert scientific knowledge of the two great groups of combatants. A few examples taken at random from this field may serve the present purpose. The British Minister of Munitions stat- ed not long ago that the war would...
...work of Mr. Hoover as food conservator. We have in Mr. Hoover a man of most valuable experience abroad in a particular and most unusual kind of work which someone had to do here. We had in him a man not only of experience and ability, but one of the highest and most patriotic motives--a man above party animus or bias, above private interest, without concealments or prejudices. He patriotically assumed a most ungrateful duty, the performance of which was bound to arouse unthinking criticism. Whether or not he has acted wisely in connection with every detail...