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...secured the approval of the Faculty and awaits the action of the Board of Governors, was announced in full yesterday. The plan was drafted by Professors R. B. Merriman '96, R. I. Lee '02 and C. N. Greenough '98 of the Athletic Committee. It does not aim to supplant organized athletics but to supplement them by furnishing to those who cannot find places on the regular Freshman or dormitory teams alternative opportunities for regular exercise and instruction in recreative sports. The normal time which each member of the compulsory athletic class would have to devote to exercise will be three...
...America, therefore, we still maintain our balance between taxation and bond issues. The former method will no doubt be increased, but it will never supplant the latter as the most important source of war income. The power of taxation is the power to destroy. The power of borrowing is the power to enlist the support of the entire nation in the prosecution...
...Andover Chapel tonight at 7.45 o'clock the Andover Theological Seminary and the Divinity School will hold a joint Christmas service. The program, conducted under the auspices of the two schools, will supplant the separate services which have been held in past years. M. J. Holmes of the Divinity School will deliver the Christmas sermon, and a number of carols will be sung, under the direction of Dr. A. T. Davison '06, by the choirs of the Theological Seminary and the Divinity School. The service is open to all members of the University...
Quite possibly there exists no better material in this country for military officers than our colleges and universities offer. There is not only no better, but there is no other material from which can be drawn those who will spread the doctrines of the futility of war and supplant those diplomatists and leaders of popular opinion who were responsible for the present conflict...
Thus with the Yard. What the University really wants is a Yard of all the stateliness and beauty of the days before the late elms began to fail. What it has, to supplant the lumbering scenes of the past week, are a great many ridiculous young shoots, interspersed among some more promising ones and a few saplings which have almost attained treehood. Of course there was a stateliness and beauty about the old Yard akin to the beauty of the English lawns that the gardener said required only three hundred years of care to procure. But there is a possibility...