Word: yesterdays
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Early yesterday morning a fire broke out in the tailoring shop in the rear of the third floor of the Harvard Co-operative Society, gutting the entire attic and most of the third floor before the Cambridge Fire Department succeeded in getting the blaze in hand. Flames were first discovered by the watchman, who turned in a first alarm at 3.27 o'clock. This failed to work and it was not until the whole roof was ablaze that engines arrived on the scene. Three-quarters of an hour was spent before the flames were controlled, and in that time...
...27th annual interscholastic tennis tournament commenced yesterday afternoon on the Jarvis Field Courts. There were 29 entries, representing Andover, Boston Latin School, Exeter, Newton High, St. Mark's and Milton. Twenty-two matches were played during the afternoon, in which Andover was an easy leader, winning nine out of ten matches played, with Exeter in second place with a total of five matches won. Kaltenback of Andover, after defeating Dana of Boston Latin, Marshall of Exeter, and Moore of Exeter, was the only man to reach the semi-finals. The six remaining matches will be played this morning...
Announcement of the awarding of the Boylston Prizes for elocution was made yesterday by Dean Briggs: three second prizes of $20 each being given to Kassel Lewis '18, of New York, N. Y., William Hettleman '19, of Baltimore, Md., and James Conlan Scanlan '18, of Somerville. No first prizes were awarded because the judges agreed that the speaking was not of sufficiently high calibre...
...latest announcement of the War Department concerning the work of the college R. O. T. C.'s next year, as reprinted in another column from yesterday's Boston papers, brings practical results, it will be a cause of general satisfaction. By this plan, every college with an enrollment of over 100 will have a training unit, recognized, equipped, and officered by the War Department. Students will not be required to join, but when they do they will be regularly enlisted and subject to the call of the President. Only the gravest emergency, however, will bring a call before an undergraduate...
...Yesterday's telegram from the War Department to the University Military Office clears up the question as to where the R. O. T. C. quota for the Fourth Series of Officers' Training Camps will report. It is now certain that all those men assigned to Quota A--members of Military Science 2--will report for duty and training at Camp grant, Rockford, Ill., and that the other men of the University's quota will go to Camp Devens next Wednesday, May 15. All men who are to leave College to attend these O. T. C.'s must receive certificates from...