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...spring play competition of the Dramatic Club closes next week and so far the number of undergraduate contributions has been disgracefully small. "Indifference" and "laziness" are oft quoted words, but they come perilously near the truth some times. Granted the ability and the time, what is the matter with the undergraduate dramatist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHERE ARE THE DRAMATISTS? | 1/31/1917 | See Source »

...oft heard accusation that the conversation of Memorial hall and of other eating places frequented by members of the university is compounded solely of sports, women, and the weather, is extended by a writer in the "Dial" to cover all the conversational attempt of educated Americans. "Bring together a group of college men, graduates of the same institution, and what do they talk about?" he inquires. "The same things as the tired business men of theatrical disrepute, sport or women, business or politics in the littlest sense of the word...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN ATTITUDE OF MIND | 1/12/1917 | See Source »

...John Harvard, we thank you! In our rush of daily tasks we oft lose sight of our indebtedness to you. Yet in our every work, done fairly and joyously for our college, we are in reality paying to you deep and loyal tribute. For with the eye of truth you saw--dimly perhaps and far away--a future college of breadth and strength and forward marching progress; and believing in that ideal you gave lavishly of your, worldly store to further it. Where others saw a possibility, you clearly saw a certainty, and your sacrifice has led to our presence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRIBUTE PAID TO JOHN HARVARD | 11/29/1916 | See Source »

...following article from the New York Times concerning the relative physical development of college men of today in comparison with those of the last generation is of interest in that exact figures prove the oft-stated assertion of better physiques at the present time. The article is by Dr. F.J. Born, the Medical Examiner of Yale University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Comment | 1/31/1914 | See Source »

...Howard A. Lothrop will deliver tomorrow's lecture in the free series, at the Medical School, Longwood avenue, Boston, at 4 o'clock on the "Treatment oft some Emergencies of a Surgical Nature." No tickets are required, but the doors will be closed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tomorrow's Medical School Lecture | 5/3/1913 | See Source »

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