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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...world. Within a space of time measured not merely by months but by weeks, army engineers have succeeded in converting army stores and supplies into a vast collegiate equipment including laboratories, gymnasium, class and demonstration rooms, as well as vocational work-rooms of many sorts, all in a surprisingly short space of time. Although semi-permanent in character, this equipment is amazingly complete. Barring the 60,000 text-books and 40,000 books which comprise the Library, nothing has been sent from this side of the water. Without aid from home, except in this one regard, these Americans...
...will be the principal speaker at the meeting. Mr. Reid has been acting as associate coach of the University nine for the past few days, and has a very thorough understanding of the baseball situation. Captain W. W. McLeod '19, and Manager Ford Hibbard '20 will each give a short talk. The cheering will be under the leadership of Cheer-leader C. Canfield '19, and all of the University baseball songs will be practised in preparation for the game on Saturday. Cards have been printed with the words of the songs, and these will be distributed at the meeting...
...Memorial Committee held yesterday afternoon it was decided that the first step toward the erection of the memorial would be to consult several architects to get various plans for the gate. The architects will start work on the plans at once, and they should be ready in a short time...
...previous contests, the team has displayed great batting ability and has developed some fast fielders in Captain G. S. Baldwin '21, at short-stop and R. B. Shaw '21 at third. The nine's first game resulted in a 4 to 3 victory over Middlesex, and the second in a 10 to 7 win from Andover, both of whom were undefeated up to the time of their meeting with the second string players...
...spite of the fact that the aeroplane carrying the two aviators met with adversity a short distance off the coast of Ireland, the greatest part of the broad Atlantic was successfully crossed. Although we should liked to have seen the American Navy carry off the honor of first accomplishing the almost incredible flight, we hope that the judges of the "London Daily Mail" transatlantic contests will recognize the momentous significance of being pioneers in such a hazardous enterprise, and award the Australian aviators the $50,000 which they deserve for virtually accomplishing the tremendous task they undertook...