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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...classic in terseness and biting sarcasm is President Lowell's letter to Professor Franz Keibel of the University of Koenigsberg. The latter is answered in a tone which ought to be applied to many more Germans and to the German Government itself; "If you can prove to me that you protested against the burning of the Library at Louvain, and that you endeavored to secure protection and that you endeavored to secure protection and such treatment as you now request for the professors of the universities in the Belgian and French territory occupied by the Germans, then I will exert...
What subtle irony! What an efficient pricking of the German sympathy bubble! Our sentimental friends who plead for pity on "poor bleeding Germany" should read this letter. The memory of Louvain called up here so vividly would perhaps deter them from their path of mercy...
Eleven "H" men are still in College, and, with the addition of the 1923 squad, they should form a strong nucleus. The men who have won their letter are as follows: T. M. Avery '21, F. M. Bacon '21, E. L. Bigelow '21, R. W. Buntin '21, E. Cabot '20, C. A. Clark Occ., F. C. Church '20, J. Holmes '21, H. B. W. Shelling '21, N. S. Walker '20, and H. K. White '20. The most promising men from the Freshman team of last year seem to be H. F. Colt '23, H. B. Humphrey...
President Lowell has received a letter from Professor Franz Keibel of the University of Koenigsberg, Germany, asserting that the French Government retained certain private scientific property of his at Strassburg, including books and instruments, and requesting President Lowell to help him procure their return...
...University at present, a representative meeting could not be called, and consequently decided to elect the captain by mail. All "H" men who were in the University at the close of last year will vote by mail for one of the Senior letter men in College this year. In case the leading man does not receive a majority vote, a second ballot will be taken on the two leading men. It will be impossible to include "H. A. A." men on the voting list...