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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Trials for the 1921 debating team will begin in Harvard 6 tonight at 7.45 o'clock and will continue tomorrow and Friday evenings at the same place and time. Any Freshman may try out for the team, and all who intend to enter the competition should be present tonight. Men who have a Military Science lecture at the hour set may report later in the evening. Each candidate will speak for five minutes on either side of the question: "Resolved, That the United States should adopt a system of military service modeled after that of Switzerland." Members of the University...
...competition for Freshman debating manager will begin tonight also. Candidates should report in the Standish Hall Common Room at 8.30 o'clock...
...that the tumult and shouting that attended the start of the Loan drive are over, and the first flush of enthusiasm has worn off, the real work of the campaign is yet to begin. For the first two days there was a general air of elation and confidence which was fostered by the demonstrations and brass bands that were so much in evidence Saturday. That confidence must not be allowed to become overconfidence. Reports of large oversubscriptions of individual towns and many of the newspaper headlines which seem to indicate that the Loan is already sure to succeed must...
...dance, which will probably begin at 9 o'clock on the night of June 18, in the Union, will be very informal, and there will probably be no boxes. Before the dance, however, the class will meet in the western part of the Yard for small club spreads. While the decorations will be less elaborate than in previous years, boxes will be erected and the Yard will be fenced off between University and Thayer and University and Weld Halls. It has been customary to hold the spreads both in the Yard, in Memorial Hall and the Delta, but conditions this...
Tomorrow evening, also, the competition for Freshman manager will begin, when candidates from 1921 should report in the Standish Hall Common Room at 8.30. Candidacy for the team will not prevent a man from competing for the managership as well. The competition will be a short one, lasting till just before the triangular debate scheduled for May 17, but which may be held as early as May 10. The manager chosen will make the trip to Princeton with the team...