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...present schedule we shall have something like two and a half million men in service and in training when the present year of the world's travail ends. We ought to have twice as many. The more men we give the quicker the task will be done. The more men we send, the more will come back safe and sound. The way to save American lives is to offer American lives with prodigal hands...
...prosecution of the war. Some few have opportunities for useful service secured to them through their personal connections. The remainder should lose no time in communicating their wants and capabilities to the Employment Secretary. Individual seeking for a chance to render service in war employment is a tire-some task and likely to place one in the end in an unimportant or disagreeable position. Backed by the reputation and investigations of the Harvard Employment Office the student is much more likely to discover and obtain a useful and congenial job without the delay and trouble of an individual search...
...taken a welcome brace in these spring months of ours. The Lampoon of nowadays is thrice as sprightly as it was earlier in the college year when a decimated board or editors tackled an unwonted task. Its quips carry a superior kick and its rhymes show an improvement in content and metre. All of which naturally makes the spring number a whole lot more enjoyable than the autumn edition...
...resumption of athletics last Saturday showed by the result of three victories that Harvard teams still have the ability to "tame the Tiger," which has been such a favorite pastime in former years. It has not always been an easy task to defeat Princeton and often we have failed, but our success this year has almost exceeded all expectations. There is cause for exultation in this alone. Yet the outcome of Saturday's games is gratifying not only from a competitive point of view, but also from the standpoint of its relation to this spring's formal system of sport...
...French press has had no small part to play in this great conflict. Upon it has the government depended to a large extent for informing the French people what was going on, and yet keeping up their spirit and resolution. As may be expected, this was a difficult task, for with German hordes pouring in upon them, with a horrible and thorough war being fought on their territory, the French people could not be salved into determination by honeyed words alone. It required straight from the shoulder talk, with logic always in evidence. This French papers have supplied. They have...