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...Jubilee, for the remainder of the year. Dr. A. T. Davison '06, who has had general charge of the Freshman singing, has deemed such a move advisable, but as 1920 has shown more interest in singing than any previous class, it is probable that with the resumption of normal College activities future classes will carry on the work so well begun...
...current number of the Illustrated is thoroughly representative of the present state of mind of Harvard. The dominant note throughout, from the very excellent cover design to the end of Dr. Sargent's article, hidden away among the advertisements, is preparation for war. The few normal activities of College life worth recording, such as the taking of the Senior picture and the election of the hockey captain, are relegated to inconspicuous back pages, just as they are kept far in the back of the undergraduate mind. It is unfortunate, however, that such irrelevant pictures of those of the Yale crew...
Compulsion intelligently applied in a good cause is a blessing. For example, a youth of 19, with a normal desire to perform his duties as a citizen, finds the incentive toward service in the regular military establishment or in the militia somewhat weaker than the incentive to take his ease, avoiding all discipline. The country's need that he shall know how to defend it is not brought to his attention. If, however, there were a law requiring his service with the colors for a given time at a particular period of his life, he would perform the service...
...desirable to cut out athletic sports however serious the situation. With a long period of preparation before us it is decidedly unnecessary and unwise to do so here. Even in the present unsettled condition there is no reason why we should put an end to those normal activities which we may with entire fitness continue...
...again in the universal talk about armament for war to remember that the whole world is not forever doomed to fighting. War is a preparation for peace; we must bear in mind even now that our goal is a more enduring peace, and plan for the resumption of our normal lives when the abnormal tension has been relieved...