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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Five defeats out of seven encounters, a certain lack of the essential drive, and a slackness among individual members in matters of team play and training is the record which the baseball squad has presented to the University during the past three weeks. It has been a number of years since Harvard has had to face such a major sport problem. We have hesitated for a long time before admitting that fact; there seems now but little doubt that it is, unfortunately, true...
...does, however, urge the necessity of an army. That is good. But how, in the light of past experience, can he advocate the National Guard as our first line of defence? At the border, it took six months to "condition" the Militia. In the present war the bulk of the Guard divisions were sent overseas after many of the National Army troops. Yet, assuming as he does that we need troops, it is taking a lot for granted to suppose that in the next emergency we shall be given six months or a year before we must fight...
...restoration of the annual race between the championship class crew at New Haven and Cambridge. That such a race is desired is undeniable: the oarsmen of sub-University calibre all are anxious for the test. As the race has been over the Basin course for several years past, it is likely, if rowed, that it would be held on the Housatonic...
...interests, and we are glad that the unavoidable gulf between the younger and the older generation has been so wisely bridged. It is to be hoped that this cognizance of the undergraduate attitude will be fostered at Harvard and throughout the country. It is only during the past two or three generations that the maxim, "Children should be seen and not heard," has been discarded as a relic of past ages. Now we are going one step farther, in recognizing that youth has a positive contribution to make, a contribution which can not be neglected...
...great problem in University life for some time past has been the lack of common interests between the foreign student and the majority of the undergraduates. In the Student Council's decision to admit one or more representatives of the Cosmopolitan Club to its membership, much progress has been made in the solution of this difficulty...