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Approximately 300 students in the College are eligible to participate in today's election. Many have been added to the original voting list under the ruling of the Student Council that those who left the Class of 1919 to enter the National service can vote regardless of their present status in the University. No Senior will be permitted to vote whose name is not on the voting list or who has not previously informed E. A. Hill '19 concerning his particular case...
President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia calls attention in his annual report to the growing importance of history and international law not only as subjects of study by the student body but as objects of reform by the college authorities. He emphasizes in particular the need for studying these two subjects in their comparative aspects. In making this allusion, Dr. Butler has probably hit upon as grave an error in our system of pedagogy as can ever be made the subject of controversy by our educational reformers. It is that of allowing personal or national or even religious bias...
...Student Laundry has announced its annual competition, open to all members of the University, for positions on the board of managers of the Laundry. There is offered an opportunity to at least four men to make positions on the board and thus earn a considerable part of their expenses by doing a small amount of office and soliciting work. Candidates, whether they are successful or not, will be paid for the work they do. Men interested are to report to the office of the Student Laundry, 1284 Massachusetts avenue immediately...
Lieutenants C. E. Wright '19, of Cambridge, Sumner Sewall '20, of Bath, Me., and James Knowles '18, of Cambridge, have downed nine, six, and five German planes, respectively. Lieutenant L. A. Hamilton, of Pittsfield, who was a first-year student in the School of Business Administration in 1917, had accounted for seven enemy flyers before his death in action. In a list of citations issued by the War Department last week Lieutenant Hamilton was awarded posthumously the Distinguished Service Cross for extraordinary heroism in action...
Just what status hockey is to have this year will not be known until the new Athletic Committee meets next week. Although the Student Council has recommended that all sports be placed on a pre-war basis at once, the authorities seem to be doubtful of reinstating intercollegiate hockey on such short notice. The question whether letters and numerals will be awarded or not, will be settled in a few days...