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...first name that can be written into annals of football since 1916. Football has been the last of the sports to be resumed after the war, but it has come with a rush. The University once more has a team which will take the field as in days of yore. Preparations for the big game are well under way, and the whole College is enthusiastically looking forward to a season which will avenge the defeat of 1916. In Captain Murray the team has chosen a good man, and it will follow him with a new determination to twist the tail...
...good to believe that Class Day is with us again, the same old rollicking reunion of many pre-war season. Downed for a time by the exigencies of war-time, "it comes up smiling" quite as expansively as of yore, and many are the prophets among the returning "grads" who declare that the jollity of the occasion will smash all previous records to atoms...
Today is Cap and Gown Day! Once again, after two drab, monotonous years of khaki, the Senior class blossoms forth in impressive robes of funeral and scholarly hue. As of yore, the Yard will welcome those venerable togas smacking of mysterious classical antiquity as well as the geometric head gear suggestive of profound and learned erudition in the occult mysteries of oblate spheroids and tangent planes...
Somehow the cry of "On to Paris" has not the same terror as of yore; it is being more and more drowned out by the noise of new men and new guns steadily rolling eastward to the French front. Von Hindenberg's battle-cry is nevertheless worthy of consideration...
...more and more in favor of the Fuel Board. Week-end parties were planned for months in advance,--a five-day schedule appeared too good to be true. It was, and our day-dreams of this new Utopia have faded into oblivion, for Monday is to continue as of yore: a day of "liaison" between a merry week-end and a dreadful week to come...