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...Regiment engaged in its first field problem on Sunday, May 7. Promptly at 1.45 o'clock, the Regiment started on its way to Belmont, preceded by a covering detachment known as an Advance Guard, which was the first phase of the field exercises. Motorcyclist messengers were speeding back and forth between the Advance Guard and the Main Body, carrying messages and keeping the commanding officer informed of the result of the reconnaissances made...
...occasioned a short halt of the column, but within fifteen minutes a motor-cyclist arrived with a message from the front stating that the hostile patrols had been repulsed and that the progress of the command need not be further delayed. Throughout the advance messages were sent back and forth from head to rear of the column and the cyclists and mounted orderlies, as well as the officers in command of the various sub-divisions, had ample opportunity to make use of the knowledge which had been imparted to them in the training of the Regiment...
...revolution is necessary before national preparedness can become a reality. Adopting a socialist view, the writer, tears down and rakes over our whole economic, social, and political system, merely to leave it in that condition. The importance of universal education is stressed, and an elaborate, impossible scheme is set forth for a new system, but aside from this, no methods for improvement are suggested. The present measures of the government for preparedness are denounced as misdirected. Of what value are powerful armies and navies, it asks, when we have no minimum standard of living? It proceeds by demanding an elimination...
This letter is intended solely for members of the Freshman class. The class of 1919 has put forth two excellent debating teams which give fair promise to bring home a championship on May 5. One team goes to Princeton, the other remaining at home. The expenses this year will be large and are to be met by contributions alone, since the debate is to be free to the public. In previous years classes have each yielded up a total of $300. With the war pouring gold into the United States, the class of 1919 can do what others have done...
...question in which the Athletic Committee should not become involved is the irrelevant problem of professional and amateur athletics. Harvard is called upon to put forth teams and crews developed under given conditions, and Harvard, in fairness to her supporters, must leave no stone unturned in her effort to give her best. The question is simply this: Who is to have the right to select the oarsmen of the crew? Is that power to be vested in a young, inexperienced captain, or in a responsible, experienced coach, employed as a permanent authority? In fairness, alike to every captain...