Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...collection of war posters recently donated to the University by Mr. Guy Emerson '08, has been received at the Widener Library, where the posters will be kept. The collection at present consists of 500 posters delivered at the Library, but Mr. Emerson hopes ultimately to bring it up to 1,000. The collection includes a complete set of all the posters issued by the national organizations in this country, such as the Liberty Loan, Red Cross, Y. M. C. A., Army, Navy, Marines, Food and Fuel Administration, etc. Likewise, there are posters from France, England, Canada, Russia, Italy and Australia...
...such as English A has been justified as a measure of social prevention, so to speak. Slightly altering the words of the founders of Harvard College, we may say that our academic forebears instituted this course, "dreading to leave an illiterate body of undergraduates to the college, when our present scholars shall lie in the dust." The purpose of English A, therefore, has heretofore been to insure among the undergraduates a fair knowledge and ability in the writing of English composition. In what conceivable way, then, is the value of this course to be enhanced by introducing compulsory training...
Since the elimination of the Boston Arena by fire a short time ago the Charles River has become the best available skating rink for members of the University. As though cognizant of the responsibility of making good thus placed upon it, the river, aided by the present cold weather, has produced an excellent surface of smooth ice, which has brought out many skaters in the last few days...
...river has one serious handicap. There is no safe place to leave shoes or surplus clothing. A skater must either be burdened by carrying these cumbersome things with him or trust them to the uncertain honesty of the small boys along the banks, who may or may not be present at the time of reckoning. To abolish this inconvenience the Locker Room of either the Weld or University Boat Club should be opened for use. Possible confusion of articles could be avoided by keeping an attendant there to check them for a small fee. If the Locker Room were also...
...present enrolment is slightly larger than last year, when only 1,806 students were enrolled, but it is only about two-thirds of the normal registration of 3.400 students...