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...There was a delay of about ten minutes in turning in the alarm, because the key, which is kept at 68 Mt. Auburn street could not be located. The fire started on the outside of the building in a bundle of excelsior which was wrapped about a pipe to prevent freezing...
Even though there were many more profitable and pleasant ways of spending a summer vacation--in travel or in outdoor work of many kinds--which six weeks in one of the camps would largely prevent, yet it is not on such grounds that the danger of the Military Camps lies. General Wood has called attention with admirable frankness to the emphasis which the camps will place on the spreading of sound information as to the "present military needs of the country." The CRIMSON hesitates to question the judgment of our military authorities as to the real value of six weeks...
...chairman did not announce the vote; but, instead, stated that it would be announced by the CRIMSON. The chairman hoped thus to prevent inaccurate information injurious to Harvard from appearing in the Press. J. T. L. JEFFRIES...
Official campaigns to collect money for causes generally recognized as worthy have the CRIMSON'S indorsement. But the line should be drawn somewhere to prevent imposition and even fraud...
...with us, if your greatest rival upsets your whole campaign, which has included a number of contests with other rivals in which considerable prestige is lost by defeat, the only thing left to do, according to the American mind, is to get a more efficient organization which will prevent such a catastrophe in the ture. I leave it to the reader to select his own illustration of this peculiar American tendency...