Word: wars
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...entire cast will leave this afternoon on the 1.05 train for New York for the presentation in the Astor Ballroom tomorrow afternoon and evening. The remaining performances will be in Jordan Hall, Boston, on Monday and Wednesday evenings, April 21 and 23. Tickets at $2.75 including war tax may be obtained at the following places: In Cambridge, Leavitt & Peirce's, Amee's, the Co-operative Branch; in New York, the Harvard Club and McBride's; in Boston, Herrick's, the Harvard Club and at the Jordan Hall box-office; also by application to E. W. Pavenstedt, Jr., '20, ticket manager...
After the interval of two years caused by the war the Hasty Pudding Club resumes its agreeable practice of furnishing diversion to an all-too-serious world. "Crowns and Clowns," the play of the year, adds another list of names, some doubtless to be famous in the years to come, to the many lists which have appeared in the frolics of the club for almost a century and a quarter. Curious enough it seems to learn that Joseph H. Choate, Charles Francis Adams and Phillips Brooks, all had their parts in the Pudding plays of older days. We like them...
...place entries in the races of the Intercollegiate Aerial Tournament calls attention to the increasing importance of aviation and the role it will play in the future. In a recent editorial, the New York Tribune states, "Undoubtedly the Intercollegiate Aerial Tournaments will receive government support. Should there be another war the colleges will be able to turn out hosts of trained eaglets of the type of Quentin Roosevelt and Hobey Baker, ready for service. Trained collegiate aviators will make the United States air service a real factor the next time it is called upon. The transcontinental intercollegiate air race...
...which is so vitally allied with artillery, by adding a course in aeronautics to its curriculum. The aviators and aspiring aviators would gladly welcome such a course, and the government would doubtless further the enterprise by aiding with some of the excess planes left on its hands by the war...
...news that twenty-nine percent of all eligible undergraduates are taking part in one or another of the four major sports this spring is at least worthy of comment. It will come as a decided surprise to many of the older graduates who in pre-war days were wont to compare eleven men on the football team to the whole seething cheering-sections which gave them lusty support. "Why is there not a chance on some team or crew for every man who wants to take part in a college sport?" these graduates asked. Generally there was an answer...