Word: takings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This afternoon the eight will take a practice spin over the Housatonic course which is but a few miles from New Haven. Charlie Hart, the University boat-rigger, who has been in New Haven since the first of the week, has completed the refitting of a Yale shell with oarlock riggers in place of the latter's tholepin arrangement. On Thursday and Friday there will be stiff workouts both morning and afternoon with a short run scheduled for Saturday morning...
This year Memorial Day will take on a new significance. It used to be the day consecrated only to those who died in the Civil War. From now on it will be even more a day on which we shall commemorate the sacrifice of our countrymen's lives in the Great War. We take pride in our grandfathers and great-grandfathers who fell on the battlefields of Gettysburg and Antietam, and on each May 30 we are newly thrilled by the memory of those men who fought for Union and Democracy between 1861 and 1865. The pride and the thrill...
...conference of visiting military science instructors will take place this evening at 8.30 o'clock, when there will be a gathering to discuss the problems of military training in the various colleges. In spite of its unofficial nature, the conference will doubtless do much to standardize and strengthen the military work now being done in the colleges and thus lead to greater effectiveness in the preparation of men for national service. Delegates have been sent by the College of the City of New York, Connecticut Agricultural, Johns Hopkins, Rhode Island State, Rutgers, the University of Maine and Wesleyan. Others have...
Preparations for the Freshman jubilee to take place in Smith Halls tomorrow afternoon and evening are now rapidly nearing completion. The final practice for the dormitory choruses which will contend for the silver loving cup presented by a group of University graduates, will be held in the Smith Halls Common Room tonight at 7 o'clock. All arrangements for the informal dance in the evening and for the spread which will precede it have been made...
During the supper the Smith Halls Orchestra, under the leadership of I. Straus '21, will play in the Common Room for informal dancing for those who wish to take part, but the dance of the evening will not begin until after the interdormitory song contest which begins...