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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...same thing is true of hockey. A fast game of hockey requires more "wind" than any other branch of athletics, except, perhaps, distance running, and a squad of strong substitutes is a great asset to a hockey team. In this lies much of the University's strength in hockey. The seven second-string players as a whole do not, of course, make as strong a team as the regulars. But the calibre of Coach Winsor's substitutes is such that several of them can go into a game at almost any time with practically no loss of power...
...after the peace that is made only on paper. We want the kind of peace that will last and that kind needs force behind it, Military training creates that force and the Harvard gentlemen who have gone to Washington to urge this upon the authorities are doing a patriotic thing. That Harvard should lead is eminently proper and to be expected. CHARLES L. PEIRSON '59, Brevet Brigadier-General...
Whether this last German note will mean diplomato break or not, is still to be settled. But one thing this crisis ought to bring home to all patriotic students in our colleges; the woeful ignorance of the national problems before this country today...
...submitted that such compulsion would be neither undemocratic nor un-Christian. All compulsion is not abhorrent to democracy and Christianity. Taxes are universally compulsory--and the payment of them may be against the conscience of some--but they are merely regarded as a necessary evil. Taxes are one thing which the individual owes the state. Military service is another, and the compulsion of a man to do his duty to the state is justified--even in a democracy...
...stick, rough and tumble type which fill our vaudeville houses. Here, however, is a play in which a singular art has been carried to its height. We never miss the speaking, for we are absorbed in the delightfully foolish little plot and amazed at the grace of the whole thing. Pierrot's home and phrynette's boudoir furnish two admirable settings for an entire evolution of emotions and from nonsense to a tinge of tragedy, we are appealed to from a variety of feelings...