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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...plan proposed by the President of the Harvard Clubs may not be accepted, but it is to be hoped that some similar merger will be decided upon at the meeting in June. It has long been a fault of the existing machinery that a majority of the officers of the Alumni Association have been chosen from the East, largely because the elections have been held at Commencement time and the men of the East have been present in preponderant numbers. The new organization, if put into effect, will doubtless provide a method for distributing the officers in a more representative...
...entering the army was especially low, as was proved by the number of those rejected. Yale has a system of compulsory exercises for men in their freshman year, and this has proved an effective plan. It is expected that this measure, if carried through, will tend to produce similar good results here...
...University dormitories along the latter street. After marching down Linden street, it will pass through the Yard. All men who are coming to the meeting should fall in and march behind the music. The band has been procured to play at the game on Saturday also. A procession similar to that which marched to the Dartmouth game will parade to the field the day after tomorrow...
...action of the Harvard faculty, practically certain as it is to be followed by similar action in other institutions, cannot fail to have a good deal of influence upon the character of undergraduate training during the next few years. Whatever the merits of the elective system at its best, it has not in most cases insured the pursuit of a well-balanced program of studies by the individual student. Too early specialization at the cost of fundamental general training, or conventional choices at the suggestion of fellow students, fraternity associates, or upper classmen, or an aimless following of the line...
...hope that the undergraduates at Harvard will form a 'Harvard Legion' similar to the 'American Legion' which has just been organized," said Lieut-Col. Theodore Roosevelt '09 in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter in New York on Saturday, "and I recommend that steps be taken at once for its formation and its union with the National Legion. As a result of the recent convention at St. Louis, the plans for the organization of an American Legion of all men who have been in the service of the United States during the World War is well under way, and local...