Word: touche
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University Juni0rs took the lead at the start and gained steadily; but Yale was put entirely out of the running by misfortune when, with Harvard four lengths to the good at the mile mark, Kent, at No. 6 in the Eli shell, broke his oar and added a spectacular touch to the event by jumping overboard...
...meeting at Buffalo in June, contains a proposal for a combination of the Harvard Alumni Association, the Associated Harvard Clubs, and the Association of Class Secretaries. The plan will be submitted for ratification in the belief that a centralized organization would be better able to keep the graduates in touch with the University than the present decentralized system. In addition, such a combination would prove a more effective instrument for accomplishing graduate desires, and would unite the alumni on a more uniform basis...
...under the handicap of the bad reputation of the S. A. T. C., he set forth, a short time ago, comprehensive plans for the future R. O. T. C., which, if they materialize, will undoubtedly prove of great value to the University. The few men who have come in touch with Colonel Goetz are already eagerly awaiting the time next fall when they shall be under the leadership of a man who appears to be of the same high calibre as Colonel Shannon and Colonel Cordier; but many others, it cannot be too strongly urged should sign...
...desire of a few well-intentioned women that this work should be carried on, but that its importance is recognized by such prominent men as those connected with the War Camp Community Service and the Secretary of War, all of whom are certainly in a position to be in touch with the situation...
...Emerson D this evening at 8 o'clock, Mr. Joseph A. Steinmetz, president of the Aero Club of Pennsylvania, will lecture on "Peace Time Aviation," under the auspices of the University Aeronautical Society. Mr. Steinmetz is in close touch with aeronautical development in this country and abroad, having recently spent three months at the front. He is a member of the National Research Council and the Submarine Defense Association...