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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...things military. Three-fourths of the news published in the daily undergraduate paper pertains to the European battlefront and eulogies on peace. A commissioned lieutenant is military editor of the paper. Intercollegiate athletics have been officially abandoned by a decree of the university's athletic directorate. Over one thousand graduates and undergraduates of the University of Toronto are now enlisted with the Allies, and more are continually joining the service as fast as they can obtain the necessary military knowledge...
...work of constructing the wooden stands for the Yale game will probably be started next week. F.B. Furbish, the Cambridge contractor who has done the work for the H. A. A. for a number of years will again be given the job. Seventeen thousand is the approximate number of seats which will be added to the Stadium's capacity by the erection of these stands...
...conversation at Memorial Hall is in a degenerate state. It is confined entirely to petty, heckling trivialities. No effort is made to discuss a subject intelligently or arrive at a logical conclusion on any question of the day. One thousand men are each wasting three hours a day in intellectual dejection which might profitably be spent in cultivating intelligent thought...
...University dining halls, Memorial and Randall, opened yesterday for breakfast and during the day enrolled over a thousand students, a very unusual number, particularly when one realizes that no Freshman eats outside his own dormitory. The registration of Freshmen in years before the dormitories, exceeded 200 and thus a pretty large hole is cut out. Fortunately, however, the tendency each year is toward a decided increase from the available student body which has now mounted up sufficiently to counteract the loss of Freshmen. The enrollment is growing so rapidly that a waiting list again this year seems inevitable...
...Thursday night, July 1, will occur the most interesting and spectacular event of the whole conference. An elaborate bonfire, 60 feet high, will be built in the centre of the quadrangle and each delegation will perform some special "stunt" in costume. Over one thousand students will take part in this performance. In past years there has been great competition between Harvard and Yale delegations in this event. Several surprises have been prepared for the celebration this year...