Word: short
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Coach William Haines of the crew contributes a short article entitled "Personal Reminiscences." Memoirs should always be of some length--if not, they appear sketchy and conglomerate. This is the chief fault with Coach Haine's article; it is too diffuse. But its material is interesting...
...first increment of five hundred thousand volunteers will doubtless be asked for within a short time. The method of raising this first army is the difficult problem that Congress will have to solve. When the need of trained men is so apparent as it is now, the great value of a system of universal military training is brought home with great emphasis. If this country had introduced such a system ten years ago the Government would not be confronted with a situation it is totally unprepared to cope with. Enough men would be under arms now to form the first...
...today at 1 o'clock. This is much earlier than the date on which the photographs were taken last year. The advancement of the day was decided upon by the two photograph committees because developments in the international situation may require large numbers of undergraduates to leave College at short notice. Moreover, for the first time in many years, the Seniors will not make the customary collection from the Freshmen before their picture is taken. Financial aid for the Senior picnic will instead come directly from the 1920 class fund...
...Harbor of Lost Ships," the fourth play, written by Louise Whitefield Bray, also a special student at Radcliffe, is adapted from a short story by Ellen Payne Huling. It concerns the dogmatic and terrible religious teachings of a narrow-minded parson on an island off the coast of Labrador. The "Harbor of Lost Ships" is the fanciful creation of a crippled boy whose death is hastened by the doctrines of the minister...
...three University eights, however, took a snappy row down stream. On the way back there was a short brush between the first and second shells, in which the second had the advantage as far as Harvard Bridge, but in the end the first crew drew ahead. The rowing was not quite as smooth as usual, and the uncertainty of the international situation seems to be having an effect on the men. The seating was as follows...