Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...rows of long wooden tables; plates of cheese and pretzels, movies in which Douglas Fairbanks will climb all ever the wrinkled sheet hung at the end of the Living Room, and the inevitable speeches. It is altogether fitting that the Seniors should celebrate in the manner of their pre-war Freshman and Sophomore years the last evening before they conceal their physical eccentricities and their precarious relations with the College Office beneath caps and gowns...
...find exactly where it stands. And if the present Senior Class, the only class which has bridged the gap from peace times to peace times, does not revive the traditions to be discussed this evening, more than one Harvard custom will be thrown into the discard because of the war. Primarily there is Class Day and Commencement Week; no other class now in College has seen those festivities except under war conditions. Secondly, there is to be a picnic, to be financed by the Freshmen as 1919 financed the corresponding frolic of 1916. It has now been three years since...
...Dodecanesian Islands are situated on the western coast of Asia Minor, and although the population is almost entirely Greek, formerly belonged to Turkey. In the Turko-Italian war of 1912, they were seized by Italy, and in spite of frequent protests by the inhabitants, have remained in the possession of that country ever since. The name Dodecanesian, meaning 12 islands, does not appear on any map, for the term has only recently come to be applied to this group of islands...
...Senior class meets tonight in the Union at 7.30 o'clock for the first smoker that it has held since the war. This gathering of 1919 is an important one, in as much as it is the last meeting before Class Day, at which subjects of class interest may be considered. Men prominent in the class will speak on Senior activities this spring, including plans for the coming picnic, picture and Class Day. The speakers tonight are: H. C. Flower, first marshal of the class; C. A. Clark, Jr., chairman of the Class Day Committees; L. K. Garrison, class treasurer...
Freshmen are to come prepared for the customary Senior collection of funds for the spring picnic. The custom of taking a collection from the Freshman class to defray expenses for the Senior picnic will be revived after a lapse of two years because of the war...