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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Class Memorial Scholarship is the result of the desire on the part of the present Sophomore Class to continue the custom established by the Class of 1919 last year. The precedent of presenting the University with a gift at the end of the Freshman year was started by the Class of 1918, but the succeeding Class of 1919 was the first to make this gift in the form of a scholarship. The executive board of the Class of 1919 in deciding to give this scholarship last year was influenced by the desire to have the gift of such a nature...
Definite plans for the informal season have not yet been made. According to the present ruling to college games will be played, but this decision may be changed by the athletic conference with Yale and Princeton. However, a long schedule with service, club, school and professional teams is being arranged. As many home game son Saturdays will be secured as possible in order that interest in the nine may be sustained...
...answer and that is in the negative. In the first place, nearly every college in New England is either directly or indirectly furnishing valuable aid to the Government in its military preparedness. This aid is essential, for the Germans are not through with attempting to sink transports. If the present program or military efficiency is to be carried out, these university adjuncts must be kept in working condition. The difference between the amount of coal necessary to heat the buildings used for military purposes and the entire college is so slight as to make its saving negligible. The radio schools...
...conference of the heads of universities and colleges of New England was called last Saturday by Fuel Administrator James J. Storrow '85 to discuss the question of closing all the colleges as a means of economizing coal in the present fuel crisis. Although the proposal had received considerable support from the conservation officials, the arguments put forth by the assembled presidents demonstrated that it would not be practical. Mr. Storrow is withholding his final opinion on the subject until today, but it seems improbable that he will order any limitation of the college sessions. "I am inclined...
...subject will never be given full justice until the inequality of our present Sunday laws has been reformed wherever inequality exists. As matters stand now, all those who can naturally afford to secure recreation on Sundays by motor trips, at country clubs and on private grounds are easily able to do so, but the less favored half of the community, including small boys, are held as offenders against the law if they play baseball even out of church hours. It is not a question of legalizing professional baseball on Sunday, but of giving all the people an equal chance...