Word: short
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...rate for meals on a railway dining car at $1.25 a plate. Hence the moderately wealthy Californian will no longer need to embark on a four-days' fast when he comes east to college. We are glad for his sake. And even those of us who take but short trips are interested in the new regulation, especially in the particular clause that stipulates that the food shall "be worth the price." This introduces an entirely new note into the customarily dull drone of decrees and legislation...
...will preside at a dinner at the Ritz Carlton, at which Mr. Galsworthy and Mr. Maurice Hatton will speak. On Friday evening the party will attend a special performance by Mr. Gillette of "Dear Brutus". Professor Barrett Wendell '77, Mr. Brander Matthews and Mr. Edgar Lee Masters will give short addresses at the final luncheon at the Ritz the following day when Alfred Noyes will read one of his more recent poems...
...tenth anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. The great principles of progressive civilization, which he firmly upheld during the dark days of the Civil War, are strikingly analagous to those which this nation has maintained in the war just brought to a successful conclusion. When Death cut short the full but unfinished career of Lincoln, thereby bringing loss equally to friend and foe, his plans for national reconstruction were based upon the lasting principles of "malice toward none, charity to all, firmness in the right." In a broad sense these are the ideals which America is even now staunchly...
Candidates for the University crew will report at Newell Boat House today at 4 o'clock. Acting Captain F. B. Whitman '19 and Coach Haines will give short talks outlining the general crew policy this year. It has already been definitely decided that no cuts whatever will be made this season. Boats will be organized for all men reporting and every boat is expected to have its race at the regatta. An effort will be made to have as large a squad as possible and any man interested in rowing whether he has had experience or not should report...
Within a very short time Harvard men are going to face one of the biggest problems of the reconstruction of their college life. The problem centres about the Harvard Union. There is unquestionably a need for the Union, such a Union as Harvard had ten years ago, but with even a larger scope and a more varied activity. How can the Union be restored to its rightful position...