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Today marks the birthday anniversary of the Harvard Regiment. Birthday anniversaries are traditionally a time of congratulations, and while we cannot regard with pride the growth of the lusty infant nor present it with a rattle to delight its baby heart, yet we can give praise for what it has done...
...with delight that we hear of the plan to play chess by wireless. Surely of all the triumphs of Marconi's genius none surpasses this. It has long been recognized by non-partisan observers that the range of the University Chess Team is much curtailed, and many possible glorious victories have been lost because of the team's inability to entertain the Swedish mathematical wizards in a dual contest, or to journey to Pekin to brave the Confucius Club upon its home chess board...
...leather over the cross bar at distances anywhere from 20 to 50 yards. This is still another department in which the team is away ahead of last year's. Dr. Bull has worked hard in teaching the men the fine points of the kicking game and he takes delight in pointing to the feats of his charges...
...current issue of the Advocate appears with one delightful feature in advance over its predecessors of this year in that it is especially strong in well-written prose; a form of writing which seems to be either neglected or hastily executed by most collegians of today. The poetry of this paper has a justly earned reputation, but a great many of us are decidedly unwilling to see verse reign supreme in any periodical, so the present number may be hailed with delight...
...classical compromise . . . will train up for the philosophy lecture-room students who have read Plato with delight. It will prepare for the courses in history students who have lived with the Romans elsewhere than in the Forum and on the battlefields of Gaul, who have known other Greeks than Homer's heroes. It will be the gift of a new literature to cherish while life lasts. And it will mean the true socialization of the classics. After all, there is no reason why it should not be as natural for an engineering student to read Sophocles as to read...