Word: short
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...failure of the fraction will count as the failure of the whole. But a real human being enjoys paying for a privilege by coming up to expectations. The College expects that those favored by its new scheme will study seriously and seek to get the most out of the short time left. It is but fair and just that the College be fully satisfied and thus compensated for its liberal policy...
...first move would be to save the military stores at Vladivostok, for at this port vast amounts of munitions and other war necessities which were intended for Russia have been accumulating. In all probability the Japs will do no more than push a comparatively short distance into Siberia, possibly to a point just north of Manchuria, and there set up a line of defences as a barrier against any eastward movement on the part of Germany. With the absolute lack of any stability in Russia and the consequent difficulty of moving troops, it would be physically impossible for forces...
...have few better friends anywhere than President Lowell and many of my colleagues here. On but few points of policy and on no point whatsoever of purpose and intent would my views differ from those which I know to be held by the present Administration of Harvard. In short, President Lowell and the present Administration command, and always will command, my most enthusiastic loyalty and support...
...Freshmen will hold a jubilee this year as has been done in several past years is a question which will be settled at the first meeting of the class, to take place in the Smith Halls Common Room this evening at 7 o'clock. President Faxon will preside and short speeches by Dr. A. T. Davison '06 and J. K. Berry '18 will be on the program. The purpose of calling the class together is to give the 1921 Executive Committee some idea of what the sentiment of the members may be in regard to the policy of incurring...
...Beta Kappa tonight at 6 o'clock, at which the new members from the class of 1918 who were elected on March 5, will be initiated and given their keys. Although there will be no special speakers for the evening, the new men will be called on to give short extemporaneous talks...