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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There is no more influential non-political group of men of equal size in our country than Harvard men. They wield as individuals and as a body great influence over the public opinion of their community...
Kilauea is one of the famous active volcanoes of the world, and the model which is now in the Museum gives a comprehensive idea of the size, the surroundings, and the nature of the volcanic formations which it has made. Work on the model itself was begun four years ago, and the collection of maps and taking of pictures and surveys required a great deal of time before the work on the model could be started...
...abhorred since forgotten time, mingles with the song of the alarm clock in a metallic discord of summons. Seven hundred men have learned that the morning and the evening are the day; and the morning has grown, like the tale of a submarine's exploits, to twice the normal size, while the evening is evanescent. Seven hundred men have acquired the habit of seeing how the great city looks before the subways to Boston are running, and the Cambridge police force, taking up the burden the stars have left off, resumes his diurnal beat. Seven hundred men have seen with...
...Wendell, member of the Board of Overseers, were waiting to greet him. He was taken first into the Memorial Room, where the rare books and medals of Harry Elkins Widener '07 are kept; then to the reading room, and finally into the stacks. He expressed his admiration at the size and beauty of the structure. After this, M. Viviani left immediately for Boston, the whole visit having occupied scarcely half an hour...
...continuing preparations for the course of training here. Sixty gallery practice rifles have been ordered, and beginning May 22, regular rifle practice will be held on the 48 targets which are to be placed in back of the Stadium. These rifles are of 22 calibre, but the same in size and weight as the Regular Army musket. Later each battalion will spend a week in camp on the rifle range at Wakefield, devoting the entire time to rifle practice...