Word: takings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...suggestion by the CRIMSON that the memorial to Harvard soldiers take the form of a great auditorium building seems to me a very happy one. To the request that I offer some thoughts concerning this idea, I am glad to respond. The need of a place for public or great University gatherings has been of late years, so keenly felt as to be a problem. The Stadium is doubtless a fitting place for a part of the Class Day exercises but for Commencement it is in every way unsuited. No other place is at present adequate. So great has been...
...officers, who are D. C. Hawkins '20, president; E. A. McCouch '20, vice-president; P. Hofer '21, treasurer; E. C. Storrow '21, secretary; and E. L. Peirson '21, librarian; will officially take office. The old board, consisting of J. G. Coolidge '20, president; D. C. Hawkins '20, treasurer; E. A. McCouch '20, secretary; and J. M. Steele '21, librarian; will retire...
University entries in the first Intercollegiate Aviation contest to be held in this country which will take place at Atlantic City, N. J., during, May were announced yesterday. The men to represent the University will be David Gregg OcC., W. V. Daugherty '20, and George Crompton, Jr., '21. Gregg, who was attached to the Royal Flying Corps will fly in the army contests of May 10 and Daugherty, who was an instructing ensign at Pensacola, Florida, in the Naval Reserve Flying Corps, has been entered as pilot for the naval flights on May 3. Crompton, who was a junior lieutenant...
...knows them when he sees them. Evidently he has been well trained, has gone much to the play, read widely, and studied the work of real actors seriously essaying the same parts,--in short, he is laying broad and sound foundations for a career as a critic. We take off our hat: if some day Mr. Smith, in a metropolitan chair, is not saying things to which both playwrights and actors listen, we lose our money...
...Brown '98 pointed out the fact that spring practice would add a twenty per cent increase to the ten weeks of training which will take place next fall. In emphasizing this point he said, "I have seen many games lost because of a few hours lack of practice, and we want to insure ourselves against such an occurence...