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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Mechanics Building on February 3 will be unbroken and will consist of practice runs on the board track on Soldiers Field and occasional time trials in Boston. At this meet the long distance relay team will race Yale as usual, each man running 780 yards, and the short distance team will oppose Cornell, each man running 390 yards. A third race will be the short distance relay between the Freshman team and Yale 1920. The University has defeated Yale in the annual long distance relay race for seven succeeding years. Last year W. J. Bingham '16 crossed the line...
...cause is inevitably fostered by our college life. Dr. Charles W. Eliot calls it "a preference on the part of both men and women for freedom from care and responsibility, and for passing pleasures rather than solid satisfaction." It cannot be denied that our indolent college life, with its short-cuts to pleasure, with the ease of spending an evening at the theatre or idling away an afternoon in chatter and smoke, is an open temptation to passing pleasures. We must be unusually strong if these wayside temptations do not lure us aside, leaving upon our characters the indelible imprint...
There are also tributes to Norman Prince '08, Dillwyn Starr '08, Victor Chapman '13 and Alan Seeger '10 in "From a Graduate's Window"; a history of the Department of Classics and a statement of its present aims by Professor Clifford H. Moore, and a short article on the historical revelations of the growth in the Harvard forest at Petersham by Professor R. T. Fisher...
Predominant in the group of news-and-picture articles is the essay that Professor Muensterberg contributed to the Illustrated a short time before his death. It analyzes the records of the men who were in his psychology class last spring and drags forward the belief of the psychologist that Harvard undergraduates do not make full use of their own mental attainments. It is remarkable that one man should have won a rating of 100 per cent. in Dr. Muensterberg's test, but it is likewise remarkable that so many of the other students fell far below that grade...
...graduated three years later. He was the last surviving member of his class and next to his fellowtownsman, Dr. N. E. Soule '45, was the oldest University alumnus. He attended the Medical School and received his degree from there in 1849. After practising medicine for a short time, he went into business with his brother in Boston and retired...