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...covering the course in 34 minutes, 23 3-5 seconds, came within less than a minute of breaking the record for the course made by Overton of Yale in 1914. J. W. Cambell, also of Cornell, crossed the tape 22 seconds later, leading B. Lewis '20 by a scant three yards...
...Such scant crumbs of information as Americans are able to gather from under the still veiled and mysterious Table of Peace are tending more than ever before to reveal a moderate and negotiating spirit on the part of the victorious Allies in dealing with their vanquished enemies. To an extent, at least, this is a hopeful sign, for after Germany's military claws have been once and forever clipped, the less economic punishment inflicted upon her, the better will it be for the population of the world at large, as well as the more humanitarian and in accord with...
...play have with a successful fall term. Besides, small opportunity would be given for travel or the observation of general conditions overseas, except from the very limited viewpoint of the single village in which the enlisted student would probably be stationed for guard-duty. In addition to this, such scant faith is apparently placed by the High Command in the loyalty and integrity of the American soldier, that he is denied the right to hold the slightest communication with the conquered inhabitants of the area of occupation in Germany...
...Society is circulating a petition to the Faculty, asking for the installation of an aviation course at Harvard. Other agencies are at work among us at the University, asking of us a return to the spirit in which we helped win the war, but as yet they have received scant attention from the undergraduate body...
Yesterday afternoon the first practice race of the season took place between University A eight and the Freshman first crew. The race was about three-quarters of a mile long and was closely contested, the University eight winning by a scant margin...