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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that the greatest boon the war has already given to us in America is a realization that our men must all be physically fit. I cannot look back at the record made at Harvard and at Yale, with both of which institutions I am familiar, being a graduate of one and officially connected with the other, without feeling that for 25 years our athletic training has been on the wrong track. But I am glad to say that we are seeing the light and that we are coming around...
...sides and you can see that the students want it by reading their college papers. Everybody should be out playing, building up his body. We shouldn't spend our time developing a man to jump six feet when we have a thousand men who can't jump four feet. One thousand men who can jump four feet are worth a dozen men who can jump six feet today. What good is you man if he can't get out of a trench by himself, and every man must be able to do that. We have men who cannot pull themselves...
Hockey practice for the Freshman hockey team will be resumed this afternoon on the Charlesbank rink at 3 o'clock. The seven will have just one more week of practice before the first game with Stone School on January 11. Negotiations are still under way for another game to be added to the present schedule of seven games...
Once more the cry of "Happy New Year" is heard throughout the land, but its meaning is different than in other years. This is our first war New Year and the happiness we wish our friends is not a personal happiness. We cannot expect the coming year to be one filled with pleasure and merriment, for war means death and no matter how successfully we battle the casualty lists are bound to grow as we take over an ever-increasing part of the Western Front. Yet the happiness which can only be attained through much suffering, for the words happiness...
...satchels and dive into the subway to leave Cambridge for ten days of food and rest from nine o'clocks and other terrors of a college existence we should make sure that we have not forgotten to say Merry Christmas and good-bye to our friends among the fifty-one fortunates who are leaving us for Yaphank. These men are starting down the path that leads to commissions and France, and many of them may not have a chance to return here before going "over there." This is their Commencement Day; we still have to await our turn. They...