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Expected to be slightly smaller than last year's organization, the band will direct its attentions this season to turning out better music and to more precise marching. In addition to patriotic services that are especially needed in war time, it expects to expand its former function which consisted mainly of playing at football games and athletic rallies...
...wealth. This is not the main consideration, so long as it mitigates the evils of unemployment and inequality. . . . War is at the present time the most purposeful of our social institutions; and we shall make no progress towards its elimination until we recognize, and provide for, the essential social function which it performs...
...been running for a century and a quarter," said Morgan. "It has gone through other wars, and it will go through this war. It will continue to function so long as Harvard University continues...
Also Friday night the Navy will wear their whites at a formal dance from nine to one o'clock in the Hall Room of the Continental Hotel in Boston. Baron Hugo and his orchestra will provide the music for this function, which will be the first given for the men in the Naval Indoctrination and Communications Schools...
...preliminary report in Science last week. Vitamin K, found naturally in alfalfa, hog liver, cabbage, tomatoes and possibly in unrefined sugar, is valuable for its properties as a blood-clotter, especially in hemorrhages of newborn infants. When taken into the mouth, Dr. Fosdick discovered, vitamin K serves another function-it prevents sugars from turning into tooth-corroding acid...