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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chosen this year to represent American universities, as holders of the Rhodes scholarships should take to Oxford with them qualities which few have possessed in the past. Cecil Rhodes was a man of action and of vision and the spirit which led him to the Dark Continent and which enabled him to create the British Empire in Africa is the spirit which he would have liked to see embodied in those who should hold his scholarships at Oxford...
...long. Two brief and jocular messages of farewell, the conventional allusions to the Advocate, Lampoon, and CRIMSON, the publication of the hitherto jealously guarded list of editors, and "the Harvard Magazine Prize Novel"--these are all of slighter quality than the best the Magazine has offered, in the past. Two great merits the number has. Its editorial on the Lampoon achieves the rare distinction of having something to say and saying it with emphasis and point, and better still, the sudden realization of the humorous side of its own career, marks a triumphant accomplishment in the life of the Magazine...
...often in past years, as one major sport has followed another in claiming the public eye, the cry has gone forth for support of the teams by undergraduates. That call has become over-familiar and is admittedly unpleasant. The more so on account of its necessity--but it has seldom failed to bring results in the form of increased interest throughout the University...
This morning at 8 o'clock the University wrestling team leaves for Princeton, where Coach Anderson's men will tackle the Orange and Black tonight in their third meet of the season. After victories over both Tufts and Springfield in the past two weeks, Captain MacDonell leads his men down to New Jersey with confidence in their ability to test the strong Princeton team to its utmost...
Secretary Roosevelt began by commenting on his service with the navy: "The navy," Secretary Roosevelt said, "with which I have been connected for the past seven years, is a wonderful service; it is American all through, and is the most efficient and effective branch of the government. It is a department which the country does not really appreciate. The navy was, at the beginning of the war, built around a nucleus of 3,000 men, graduates of a great university, the United States Naval Academy; at the end of the war, this body had been augmented by other college...