Word: takings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...interclass debates which were announced for this week have been postponed a week. The new date for the Freshman-Junior debate is Monday, November 12. The Juniors will take the affirmative and the Freshmen the negative side of the question, "Resolved, that in the light of recent events the Monroe Doctrine has become obsolete and should be abolished...
...management offered to release the sailors from their contract to play the informals in order that a Naval Reserve-Navy Yard game might be arranged on that date. C. R. Black, captain of the Naval Reserves and also captain of the 1916 Yale eleven, did not care, however, to take advantage of this offer, with the result that the original plan will be adhered to. In order that there may be no interference with the Yale-Harvard Freshman game to be played in the Stadium November 17 the place of the game was changed to Newport...
...team this week to strengthen the line. J. Gaston '21, has been moved from tackle to end supplanting G. C. Lee '21, and W. B. Frothingham '21, has been shifted from guard to Gaston's former position. C. S. Stillman '21, comes from the second team to take Frothingham's place. The composition of the backfield in Saturday's game is still undetermined. T. C. Wales '21, R. S. Humphrey '21, and A. D. Hamilton '21, will probably start with either F. B. Lothrop '21, J. A. MacDonnell '21, or C. B. Butterfield '21, in the fourth position...
...grant them. That is the war need of the government. Daniel Willard, the Chairman of Council of National Defense, in sounding the warning against permitting the railroads to approach exhaustion, pointed out the terrible consequences that had happened in France where such a condition had been allowed to take place. If the carriers of the nation decrease in efficiency, the whole industrial system will be tied up and the war work of the government jeopardized. From fairness to the railroads and their stockholders, and as a provision for national defense, the increase in rates should be granted...
Upon the Freshman eleven devolves the duty of upholding Harvard football this year. While none of us now take our athletics as seriously as heretofore, yet in the back of our head there lodges that idea, that conviction, that the University must live up to its record of football. Next Saturday 1921 will meet the Princeton freshmen at Princeton, and the following Saturday Yale 1921 will be their opponents in the Stadium...