Word: pre
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...participating in games conducted under strict physical requirements. Defenders of the college sport pointed out that with one exception the victims were players who entered the game without expert training. The small number of fatalities this year was remarkable, as the game was played even more extensively than in pre-war days...
...Drennan, after explaining the plans for consolidating the Army and Navy air services, also expressed himself as in favor of intercollegiate competition, giving for his principal argument in its favor the fact that it would create the interest among the colleges and the public necessary to insure America's pre-eminence...
Athletics are now pretty well back on a pre-war basis. Harvard should have, along with the chance of beating Yale and Princeton, an opportunity for the championship. A game with any one of such teams as Cornell, Pennsylvania, or Colgate would accomplish this result. It is only fair to the College that the football management should do this...
Practice for the Gym team has now begun regularly, and in a few days a meeting will be held to elect a captain. R. F. Wiley '20 is the only undergraduate in College who has been on a pre-war gym team, but there is a great deal of promising new material on hand. Coach schrader expects many more candidates to report for the team, now that the football season is over. Practice for the candidates will be held regularly three afternoons from 5 to 6.30 o'clock and one evening a week...
...Culbertson '11, killed in action at Nantillois; James J. Porter '11, killed at the Argonne battle; Samuel J. Reid '06, killed in action; Arthur R. Taber '17, killed in an aeroplane accident; Galbraith Ward '15, died while on service on the Meuse;. Marquand Ward '17, killed at Grand Pre...