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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Smileage" mass meeting will take place on Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall, when Governor Samuel W. McCall will speak on behalf of the State, Richard Bennett for the Stage, and Captain John Paulding Brown '14 for the Army. The University Regiment Band will play between the speeches...
Governor McCall has been a hearty advocate of "Smileage" ever since the idea was taken over by the Government in an attempt to relieve the necessity for amusement at the camps and cantonments. He appointed a special council for the sole purpose of stimulating interest in "Smileage" throughout the State of Massachusetts, and he will take up the subject from the point of view of the civil government...
...meeting of the Massachusetts school administrators at the State House in Boston on Saturday, President Lowell was the principal speaker on the question of changing the requirements for entrance to colleges in the state. He warned the administrators present against the dangers of lowering the standard of work required for entrance to college, but was in hearty accord with the idea of inaugurating any plan that would broaden the chance for more high school men to enter college...
...depends upon the students as well as the instructor, and that to add to a class even a small proportion of men less competent than the rest inevitably slows the pace for all. In all human affairs, it is only the selected group that can be kept in a state of efficiency...
Victory is sweet at all times, but it becomes truly delightful when one knows that his side is deserving of the conquest which it has gained. That the Harvard Freshmen were in this position last Saturday night not even the prejudiced can doubt. Twas a happy state of affairs, and many congratulations are due that hockey team for proving its worth...