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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sailors won by a score of 3 to 1. The Navy septet showed good teamwork and were very fast at following up their shots, while the University players showed a lack of team-play, due to their long lay-off, and found it extremely difficult to shoot the puck past the clever Navy goal-guard...
...admission to college can be broadened without lowering the standard, it ought, of course, to be done. It ought to have been done in the past, because the more men who can be given education of a high grade, the richer the community in intellectual power, in material strength, and in physical well-being. We have striven to broaden our methods of admission as far as possible without lowering the standard. In this we have been partially successful, but, no doubt, not perfectly so; and we hope to learn to do better by experience, constant effort and openness of mind...
...from the class of 1921 went out after that same animal shod with steel and armed with hickory and filled with an invincible spirit. After a few minutes of contest, the outcome was clearly evident, but play was continued until the Freshmen had driven seven goals where they belonged, past the Yale guard. Strangely enough, the Elis were unable to connect with a fortunate puck-thrust, and they stood at the poor end of a bad score...
...Greene Scholarship is the third that has been established at the University within the past fortnight. The first of these was the "William Henry Meeker '17 Scholarship," to be awarded "for excellence in some of the English courses"; while the second was founded as the "Robert Darrah Jenks Scholarship" in memory of a graduate of that name of the class of 1897. For the duration of the war, the income from this latter scholarship may be applied for such military measures as the University may desire...
...with Mayor Quinn, to bring the teachers and pupils together and thus to avoid the present waste of time brought about by the general closing of public schools during the coal crisis. Several thousand children in Cambridge below the eighth grade have been enjoying an enforced vacation during the past two weeks because there is no coal to heat their school buildings...