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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Thirteen crews have been tentatively seated from the 106 men who are reporting for the University squad daily. The eights have been divided into six sets, with the two crews of each set as nearly equal in strength as possible. The first set consisting of crews A and B, was seated as follows yesterday: Crew A, stroke, J. N. Borland '21; 7, N. Brayer '19; 6, D. H. Morris, Jr. '21; 5, J. F. Lindor '19; 4, D. A. Freeman '19; 3, W. Davis '21; 2, G. R. Brown '20; bow, S. Damon '21. Crew B--stroke, F. B. Whitman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THIRTEEN CREWS NOW ORGANIZED | 2/15/1919 | See Source »

...athletics is at once the greatest stumbling block to success and the greatest menace to the future of the whole system. The easily-arrived-at conclusion that a given group contains within its restricted confines all the meat and marrow seems to constitute the raison d'etre and the strength of the "Big Three...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 2/14/1919 | See Source »

...fundamental causes. When white people migrated into Europe from west central Europe they found a land divided by mountain ranges and arms of the sea into small geographic provinces. This led to the growth of numerous small countries. Physical geography, by isolating peoples, leads to national strength and often to international animosity...

Author: By Wallace WALTER Atwood and Professor OF Physiography., S | Title: GEOGRAPHY FACTOR IN WAR | 1/30/1919 | See Source »

...last night, spoke on "The Lessons of the War." The first lesson learned from the war is that military preparedness is futile if the cause is wrong. "Germany was easily the most thoroughly prepared nation in the war," said Professor Munro, "but her cause was wrong and her military strength availed her nothing." The next point brought out was the necessity of avoiding war in the future, while the last two dealt with the lesson of the war as regards education, mental and physical." The government did not realize," he said, "the number of physical and mental defectives there were...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Must Improve System of Education Says Prof. Munro | 1/30/1919 | See Source »

Little is known of the strength of the Princeton and Yale hockey squads, for, as yet, they have played no intercollegiate games. The match with Princeton will be the only contest of the year to be played on an indoor rink...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOCKEY TEAM TO PLAY YALE AND PRINCETON | 1/25/1919 | See Source »

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