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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...only is the scene perfectly serene at present, but the absence of any material to form a basis for controversy practically assures, an unexciting convention. The only event to break the routine regularity will come tomorrow. The Suffrage leaders have planned a silent demonstration. Ten thousand women will stand on both sides of the main street, leading to the Coliseum, in silence while the delegates walk...
...Several thousand are expected to go to Nantasket for the class stunts, where the performances of 1904 and 1909 will be repeated and magnified. The All-Technology student picnic will be held at Riverside...
...dollars is offered for the best doctoral thesis of the year upon a subject in Political Science. In making the award, emphasis will be laid upon literary excellence. (2) A prize of two hundred dollars is offered in alternate years for the best essay of not more than fifteen thousand words on a subject in Political Science. The literary quality, as well as the substance of the essays submitted, will be taken into account in making the award. This prize will be offered in 1916-17 and thereafter every second year. It is to be noted that the conditions governing...
...tramp of a thousand men marching today in the Harvard Regiment answered many a challenge. Have college students, more and more favored by circumstance, become so lost in seeking personal comfort and private success that they have no time for unselfish service? The regiment's regular ranks and its well-ordered marching told of many hours devoted to drill in the midst of busy weeks in winter and spring. From the day of their enlistment to their final review this morning the men have worked conscientiously to serve not themselves but their country. Has Harvard's tradition of restraint, which...
...right to say that today's review in the Stadium signified more to the honor of Harvard than any of its greatest athletic victories ever did or ever can. It was not the work of eleven men and their substitutes but the feat of a thousand men and their officers. So large a representation could be taken as the measure of Harvard's whole undergraduate body. It made no difference that the crowd of spectators was thousands less than the throng which goes to a football game to gain public applause, they entered to help prepare themselves for an hour...