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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...authentic clue to the exact date of John Harvard's birth was found until recently, when research students discovered the following record in the baptismal files of St. Saviour's Church, Southwark, England: "1607, November 29, John Harvye, S. of Robt., a Butcher." Since it was the custom in the churches at that time to require the baptism of a child three days after his birth, the Memorial Society, which each year holds commemoration services, decided in 1910 to fix November 26 in the year 1607 as the correct date of the birth of John Harvard...
Captain D. F. O'Connell '21 is the star runner of the team and the favorite for first place this afternoon. Last Saturday he came in a winner by a wide margin, establishing a new course record at Belmont. Second place was taken by J. E. Nally...
...must be able to pass a stringent examination covering eyes, ears, heart, lungs and sense of balance," and who possess a college education or its equivalent. Note that last word. You are passed at once on a college diploma if the physical tests are met, but, lacking a college record, you must have a thorough knowledge of internal combustion engines, the difference between tractor and pusher types of airplanes, between four-cycle and two-cycle motors--all this, notwithstanding the fact that the collegian gets by regardless of whether he knows a motor from a wheel barrow. Boston Advertiser...
Below is printed the complete record of Harvard-Yale Freshman football. Since the Freshman contest became an annual institution in 1891, 24 games have been played, one every year except in 1895 and 1896. During this time the University has won 14 games, Yale has been victorious in eight, while two have been tied. In points, the University has amassed the greater number with 307 to its credit as compared with 222 for Yale...
...Germans to the line of the Aisne; the second occurred at the first battle of Ypres, where he coordinated the movements of several French and British armies, and held back the enemy on the Flanders front; the third occasion was the battle of the Somme. But not alone his record inspires confidence; the opinions of other great men should be given weight. And it should never be forgotten that Joffre, that infallible judge of soldiers, once declared that "the greatest strategist in Europe is Foch...