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There are men in the University who like to wear khaki, pitch tents and shoot at targets, and who would be glad to go in for military training. But such men have an outlet for their military ardor in several local militia regiments...
...quarters of a mile and the last man a mile. In the other new championship relay race the first and second men will run 220 yards, the third man 440 yards and the fourth man 880 yards. The rest of Friday's program will consist mostly of events for local schools and colleges. The only big event taken from Saturday's program will be the hammer throw which will be held on Friday. Three other special events will be given on Friday, namely, the 56-pound weight for distance, 440-yard hurdle and the hop, step, and jump...
Perhaps the solution of the prohibition question at class smokers lies in a local option vote. At any rate the Forum has the livest sort of topic for consideration...
Even more significant, however, was the plan adopted in three cities, of opening the balconies to high school students for a small price. At the concerts in St. Paul and Chicago over 500 members of local preparatory schools heard the concert by the Musical Clubs. Among these boys who are just making their choice of a college, the University was advertised legitimately and effectively. This feature of the trip will probably bring many new students from the Middle West, and will do much to bring Harvard into closer touch with the more distant schools...
...their first concert. Other concerts were given in Akron, December 25; Cleveland, December 26; Milwaukee, December 28; Chicago, December 30; St. Louis, December 31; and a dual concert with Michigan in Detroit on January 2. In all of these places the concerts were given under the auspices of the local Harvard Clubs, and in all of them many preparations were made for the entertainment of the Clubs,--sight-seeing tours, teas, dinners and dances being among the many entertainments which were tendered them...