Word: touche
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...which we have been running for the last decade. The money question has been the greatest drawback, and next to it, the elaborate system of training, both of which over-emphasize the importance of athletics. These dangers are gone, we hope never to return. Our little touch of in formalism has shown that athletic luxury is unnecessary, and when in future we take up the gage of intercollegiate competition, it will be on a sane, reasonable basis...
...will be open only to members of the University. Although no announcement has yet been made as to the schedule of the coming lectures, they will be continued as usual on Wednesday evenings throughout the rest of the year, in part by members of the Faculty who are in touch with special and general aspects of war work and conditions in European countries, and in part by alumni and men outside the University who can speak with authority on such subjects...
...subject of Mr. Eddy's talk has not been announced, but it will probably touch upon the war. During last year, Mr. Eddy traveled through France and England, visiting the various Y. M. C. A. huts at cantonments and at the front. When he spoke before an audience of Freshmen in the Smith Hall Common Room earlier this fall, he described the work being carried on by the Y. M. C. A. "over there...
...There is a committee in the University, of which Dr. Hazeltine--your graduate and our Fellow--is the secretary, and we hope this committee will be constantly in touch with the authorities regulating the leave of American officers in France. If, however, you think it desirable that the Harvard people should have a first preference for Emmanuel, it might be possible to make this known amongst the officers from Harvard...
...gradually coming to learn that war, although more frightful than ever, has not lost all its chivalry. During these many months of artillery and trenching, battle has appeared dreary work without a touch of romance; it has seemed a monotonnous series of incidents no one of which was interesting in itself. One branch of service, however, has lighted up the picture. It is a field where only heroes can serve with success and where heroes can show the stuff they are made of. This field is aviation...