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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...firing data from the new electrical automatic range-finding apparatus. Spectators at the show-the 11th annual meeting of the Army Ordnance Association-later learned that the total of 200 rounds fired had made only a score of shrapnel tears in the red cloth finger. Previously they had seen two four-gun, multiple-mounted .50 calibre Browning machine guns blow forth eight sulphur-colored blossoms, fling white-hot missiles at a similar aerial target to score 36 direct hits...
Several changes are seen in the 1933 line-up which Coach A. E. French '29 will send against Worcester Academy at Worcester today, in the third game of the Freshman season. H. K. Wells '33, quarterback, will play his first game as captain against the team which defeated Dean 32 to 0 last week, when the Harvard Freshmen tied the Exeter eleven...
...things to do and learn, and by this time he has his individual method of doing the old thing, and a good system of study. And so, the year moves on until that grand time, June Week, comes. This means practically confinement to the Plebe. He is to be seen and heard at meals and formations only. But he knows that when Graduation Parade comes at the end of the week he has passed successfully through a year, meant to test the best and worst in a man, a year of the most strenuous mental and physical building given...
...violation, of taste and, public decency. There is obviously heavy drinking in connection with the Pudding running and there is reason to believe that this public display or drinking and its unfortunate results are sanctioned and even encouraged by those managing the initiations. Women students are regularly seen in the Yard and in the class room buildings. It is an affront to them and a slur upon Harvard that they are forced to run a gauntlet of drunken glances, bawdy ballads, and obscene recitations in order to attend their lectures...
...years since his retirement have seen Harvard continue on the road of progress marked for it by him and his contemporaries; but he himself has never rested on the knowledge of his accomplishments. Writing, studying, and understanding, he has maintained his contact with the changing present: and the present will have, at his lecture, opportunity to feel this contact. The title "Growing Old" is significant only when one realizes he grows old with such grace that he seems to live a perpetual youth...