Word: remains
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Freshmen, without outside assistance, although both need not be done by one man; two competitors may collaborate if they wish. The song to be finally selected must be light and lively, and though no ragtime will be accepted, the music should not be too solemn. The winning song will remain the permanent class song and will also form an important part of the jubilee program...
...accordance with the "daylight-saving" bill which was signed by President Wilson on the 19th of this month, all clocks throughout the country will be advanced one hour at 2 o'clock tomorrow morning. The law will remain in effect until the last Sunday in October, when time-pieces will be set back to their present schedule...
...Patriot's Day marathon relay race. There have been some objections to such a step from members of the track team on the ground that the race comes during vacation. It is probable that the team will enter, however, as it will not be necessary for the men to remain at Cambridge all the week. It is planned to have them merely keep in condition by daily jogs and return to the University Thursday instead of the following Sunday, thus arriving in time for the long run on Friday...
...spite of solemn promises Germany has torpedoed more Spanish ships in the last few weeks than in the whole previous period of the war, finally forcing out of office a cabinet at Madrid which was doing its best to remain neutral. Germany is picking a quarrel with Denmark for interning the prize crew of a captured Spanish steamship stranded off the Danish coast. Germany seizes the Aland Islands, which formerly belonged to Sweden and which command the northern entrance to the port of Stockholm and the exit from the Gulf of Bothnia, through which the largest part of Sweden...
...those who remain behind are striving to do their best, so as to take the place of the men who have gone before, when Mars has given them up as a pawn, in the great game. The men at home are dropping the philosophical volume, the poets' lore, for the slide rule and the law of the chemist, in answer to the call of stern necessity. The arts are neglected while the sciences come into their own. And for the moment perhaps, this is best while Mars' cloud lowers on the horizon...