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Harvard teams have been organized on a new basis in this year of war. Athletic policy has been guided by a consideration of the greatest good for a maximum number of men. Last fall the informal system was introduced, but has since been discarded as a failure, as the teams seemed to lack the spirit of co-ordination so essential to victory. The Princeton games placed the system of combined military training and sport on trial, and the result has so far been highly satisfactory. The quality of the teams may be lower than the general average of those...
Junior dances are few and far between in the lives of most of us, and they have been thoroughly enjoyable events. We wish the members of the Class of 1919 and their fair partners the maximum amount of pleasure. In spite of the absence of many, we hope this is the best one ever held in the Union. "Twill be good to bring the Living Room back...
...measure of the American university's war-time service is the maximum of which it is capable of rendering. A hundred percent institution today is one which is devoting the entire energy and ability humanly possible to the support of the Government. Hopeless as such theoretical perfection may be, there can nevertheless be no doubt that universities are falling short of what may reasonably be expected of them. With the end of those initial out-pourings of men, they have failed to keep pace with the increased energies of the remainder of the nation's life...
...toward a more complete conception of war-time needs. This is not peace and we cannot be satisfied with a normal college life. The true sphere of the university is the provision of academic training, as much as possible of it at all times, but the very maximum at this period in the world's affairs...
...Modern warfare involves the maximum contribution to the labor and material resources of a nation. The available labor and material resources are fixed within relatively narrow limits. In order to do our part in this war the existing labor supply must be transferred in as great a degree as possible to the production of materials necessary for the maintenance of civilian life and the production of war materials in the greatest possible volume...