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...University crew, by its defeat of Yale Saturday, brought to a successful conclusion a season which more nearly approached the normal standard of college athletics than have other sports in the University this year. Owing to the curtailment of all sport last year no first boat veterans were available for the eight. However, the seating of the crew was not affected during the entire period of training by any of its members leaving to enter the service...
...under these same conditions that the Government has found it necessary to increase rates and terminate the crushing force of overburdening restrictions. People may find increases in rates oppressive, but they must not fail to realize that increased railroad wages and the elimination of sub-normal charges mean an increased cost of operation...
Harvard undergraduates have not been slow to realize the war's obligations. Our enrolment has shrunk to one-half its normal figure. Our student body has fully supported every war cause presented to the nation. There are times, however, when students have seemed to fail their country's demands. The charge of Harvard's indifference is largely exaggerated, but it is not entirely unfounded. A glaring example of it is afforded in the failure of the University to contribute properly to the second Red Cross Fund...
Finally, we must see that the war will some day end, and that at that time the status of peace with all its normal workings must be resumed. We must curtail all the non-essentials of ordinary life to as great an extent as the war demands. We must at all times remember, however, that in maintaining as much of a peace organization as is compatible with war-time needs, we will be effectively preparing for the future...
...University. The three-cornered contest is an innovation this year, suggested because of the war-time curtailment of athletics. Princeton has easily the best team of the three, with several letter men still in college, while Yale and the University are more nearly balanced, neither possessing material of normal calibre...