Word: whether
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...addition of a swimming pool to Harvard's athletic equipment would not only serve as a boon to swimming at Cambridge, but would furnish a source of recreation and amusement to many undergraduates now deprived of the privilege of swimming during the college year. It is doubted whether a more essential type of athletic equipment is lacking at Cambridge...
...peculiarities of our censorship are often laughed at, but sometimes articles and announcements are published that do positive harm, whether they are true or not. There have been featured very frequently remarks of inventors who claim they have a machine to end the war in a month or so. The story is put on the front page with a long if not prominent list of men who are backing the invention. We can all remember the famous discovery that was to end the submarine peril in a few months, but the average is as high as ever. Other miraculous...
...date for the annual Student Conference at Northfield has been set for June 18 to June 28 inclusive, and students of all New England colleges and many secondary schools may attend. It was at first doubtful whether, on account of the war, the conference would be held at all this year, but it has now been definitely decided to maintain the custom of over 20 years' standing, and hold the convention as usual...
...University management has telegraphed to Yale and Princeton asking that the debate be postponed a week until March 29 because of the late choice of a question. Whether or not the proposal is accepted will probably be known some time today...
...applicant for the aviation corps, one of the most technical arms of the service, is quickly accepted by the Government if he has had a whole or part of a college education, whether or not he knows a carburetor from a crankshaft. An applicant without college training however, has to have considerable technical knowledge. We must of course, give great attention to our military courses, but we can do it without neglecting the academic training that the Government has so definitely approved...