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...refreshing to reflect that some of the great universities of the world are still left to promote international good-feeling and tolerance. Oxford, Heidelberg and the Sorbonne are giving academic sanction to the cause of their own countries. German scholarship is found to be pedantic; French scholarship to be superficial. Most intellectual lights, like Sir Gilbert Murray and Gabriele d'Annunzio, have found their refuge in acquiescent, even enthusiastic patriotism. Some like Romain Rolland preach tolerance in a foreign country. Bertrand Russell and Maximilian Harden who insist on academic freedom reap only dishonor among their own people...
Answering many a challenge, the regiment was also a living challenge itself. It called to a halt the extremists of pacifism. If those who would not have our nation prepared to meet the demands of war hold an ideal which refuses sanction to such qualities as the regiment has developed in Harvard men what is their ideal worth? Can it foster anything else but Inertia? The regiment, on the other hand, was the embodiment of ideals linked with real forces. It showed that it had begun to effect that co-ordination of moral with physical might which...
...compliance with War Department Orders, Captain Schindel of the General Staff, U.S.A., will inspect the Regiment, Sunday, May 21, 1916. All men should attend, since on the showing made depends as to whether we will have a U. S. Army officer detailed with us next year, under the sanction of the War Department...
...remaining dates in the 1916 football schedule have been filled and it now stands complete. One or two of the games have yet to receive the sanction of the graduate football committees and the schedule as a whole has not been passed upon by the Athletic Committee, but to all intents and purposes the list of contests is finished. One of the dates recently arranged, October 14, is filled by a newcomer to the Stadium. North Carolina appears for the first time in history. For several years North Carolina has been the chief contender with Virginia for southern football supremacy...
...entertainment at the Boston Arena on January 5, for the benefit of the Harvard Surgical Unit, is being planned by a committee headed by Miss Emma D. Sanford, of Boston. The project has the sanction of President Lowell, and the Boston Arena is co-operating with Miss Sanford in the use of the rink and incidental expenses. The entertainment is to be called "The Fashion Show on Ice," and will include an exhibition of skating costumes, old and new, on living models, fancy skating by Professor Mueller and Miss Mueller, and a burlesque in which any member of the University...