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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...very sure that it is the truth by which our hearts are stirred. Once we are sure of our facts we should ask only to feel as honest, self-respecting human beings, neither trailing humbly in the wake of an Emperor nor pretending to be holier than God made us. --New York Tribune...
...Cape Cod man, lucky enough to be at Daytona, Florida, in these days, writes that the wild geese have been seen flying north--a fact which East Coast natives assure him presages an early spring. Let us fervently pray that the East Coast people are true prophets, even if of the wishbone variety. With the temperature still vibrating rather wearily between five above and fifteen below, we need such hopefulness...
...most esteemed contemporaries in Boston assured us last night after making a thorough investigation of weather conditions of the past few centuries that zero weather was over for a year as far as this neighborhood was concerned. Statistics show that the overwhelming majority of University students has its legal residence in the only Commonwealth in America, but in regard to the prophecy made by our Boston friend everyone in Cambridge claims to hail from a certain state in the Southwest. We do not wish to be foolishly skeptical, but seeing is believing, and until the warm winds of summer...
...us hope, however, that Florida is right, and that it is a true sign of an unprecedentedly early spring. We need one. Boston Transcript
...large number of candidates. If the athletic rulers wish to get the greatest numbers out, they must provide some intercollegiate meetings with our natural rivals no matter how much the season may be modified from the pre-war standards. If they will promise, on their side, to give us competition with other colleges, the undergraduates will promise in turn to conduct a sane and economical season, without neglect of military work, but rather with an increased interest in it. FRANCIS PARKMAN...