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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Friday, the twenty-third, is the day! Seniors meet at 8 on the Widener steps; the "uniform of the day" will be overalls (color, condition and design not specified). Caps, tin cups, and a brass band will be provided, also lunch and "sundries". Seniors will ride in special cars to the waiting vacht and sail to the mysterious picnic ground, and the picnic will start. All will arrive at Harvard Square promptly at six. No cash, no cuts; costs nothing but a pair of overalls...
...operating at short intervals between the campus and Yale Field. This means of transportation, besides being free, will bring the field within six minutes of the college, instead of twenty as formerly. Anyone, whether he is out for a team or not will be privileged to a free ride in one of the buses. The purpose will be to get every man out on the field every day, not necessarily competing for a team, but at least taking some form of exercise...
...topic. Everywhere increases in salaries for teachers are being talked of. Now come undergraduates to the rescue. Among the conclusions that no wise man will fail to draw are that students are after all somewhat interested in the training they get, and that the cruel undergraduate, though he may ride an instructor to death in the classroom, is human enough not to want the poor fellow's children to die in a garret. The last paragraph is perhaps out of place. "At Oxford," said the immortal master of Balliol, "not even the youngest of us is infallible...
...This morning I went up again to shoot but the other machine had trouble and did not get up. I had a nice little joy ride. The country is beautiful from 5,000 feet. With the school below you, you see the lakes and woods and only a few miles off the ocean and Bay of A--. It makes one want to head west and start right across. You see the line of breakers and the sand-bars and dunes...
...Cross Mission. Our party consisted of twenty-nine men and included specialists in medicine, bacteriology, hospital management, food, sanitation, and sociology. Colonel Frank Buildings of Chicago was in command of the expedition. We left Boston on June 29, crossed the Pacific in ten days, and then took the long ride of thirteen days across Siberia and Russia to Petrograd, where we arrived August 7. The object of the Mission was to give aid to the Russian people in their prosecution of the war by furnishing needed supplies for the care of the sick and wounded in the army and relief...