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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...nation-wide effort to economize; and it is not improbable that many other universities and colleges would take similar action. Most important of all, it would be a direct bit of co-operation with Fuel Administrator Storrow and his policy of saving by early stopping of the entire State's activities...
...heartily approve of the measure which you are urging in regard to starting the daily schedule of Harvard an hour earlier in order to economize the use of artificial light. I hope that the University authorities will endorse the plan, and that other colleges of the state will be able to adopt the same proposal. JAMES J. STORROW...
Invitations to enter teams in the ski and snowshoe races and in the ski-jumping contests have been sent to all colleges supporting a similar organization, and competitors are expected from New Hampshire State, Williams, Middlebury, Colgate and others. Instead of the usual method of opening the entries to the college, the Outing Club intends to choose its representatives for the intercollegiate events just as is done in other athletics. The men will be chosen for the team on a basis of the work in the early season preliminary meets which will start during the next two weeks...
Ardent patriotism, unless sensibly directed, degenerates into narrow-mindedness. That seems to be the fault of the North Dakota State Board of Education, which has resolved to discontinue the teaching of German in public schools. Although there has been a tendency to bring this about in some Eastern cities, yet no such widespread decision was made. Now we hear from the West that a whole state has determined to substitute the study of French and Spanish for that of German. For no other reason than our present state of war, the school board of North Dakota has decided to keep...
...Bacon, who succeeded Elihu Root as Secretary of State under President Roosevelt, and later served as ambassador to France, was elected a member of the Corporation in 1912. At the outbreak of the war he volunteered his services to the Government for the duration of the war and is now in France as a member of General Pershing's staff, holding the rank of major. The other members of the Corporation are President Lowell, Treasurer C. F. Adams '88, Dr. H. P. Walcott '58, Major H. L. Higginson '55, T. N. Perkins '91 and Bishop W. Lawrence...