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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...content to let the universe whirl on as it it will so long as it does not bother him, the fact that men devote their whole lives to the stars is of little moment. He feels that it is a great waste of time, perhaps--that is all. Unknown to him is the fact that he sets his watch according to time given him by astronomers, that ships could not navigate the seas; that the commerce of the world depends on the painstaking care and self-sacrificing effort of men whose names are and over will be unknown to fame...
...been launched successfully again and under difficulties which it is easy to underestimate. Coach Fisher himself was called upon at the eleventh hour last spring to take over Mr. Haughton's position as held coach. He was confronted with a vast squad in September, men for the most part unknown and untried in college football. That he and Captain Murray were able to develop the mature football displayed by Harvard in Saturday's game is a truly remarkable feat...
...entirely mistaken notion that the Czecho-Slovaks are an uncultured and barbarian race. As a matter of fact illiteracy is practically unknown in my country, and the American Commissioner of Immigration at Washington in his official bulletin states that of all the races entering this country the Czecho-Slovaks have the lowest percentage of illiteracy...
...Henry Kemble Oliver '52, who, unknown to the public, had endowed the Department of Hygiene at the University with several hundred thousand dollars a few years ago, died last Saturday, October 25. Dr. Oliver had all through his life been very interested in matters of student health at this University. This interest led him in his later years to give his entire fortune to the establishment of the chair of Hygiene, now occupied by Dr. Roger Irving...
...print for the promotion of their ideals and for the progress of the world! Gradually we have become enlightened concerning the evils which have held us in their yoke and which have surely brought us to the brink of ruin and destruction, while civilization and progress have been unknown. Indeed, it is high time to stay our backward course, and, by suppressing evils, start the world forward...