Word: things
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...alumni backing more powerful than that possessed by any other university in the world. Banking, the professions, and all branches of business and trade in all of America's larger cities will be represented in this gathering of Harvard men. And from the University's viewpoint, the most significant thing about their meeting is that it has not been called together to discuss the business, banking or professional problems of the nation, which, as a body of representative Americans it could face as well as any other. It has been called together expressly for the purpose of extending and binding...
...picnickers will wear overalls, which are the only thing not provided by the management. These may be procured from E. L. Casey '19, 13 Holyoke House, at cost price, or from Parke Snow, the Harvard square dry goods company. Cups and class caps will be distributed shortly after the assembly, and a class picture will be taken on the steps of the Library...
...fact that certain Republican Senators are already advocating the formation of a new national department, under a Secretary of Education, with a seat in the cabinet. If the affairs of private schools and non-land-grant colleges were left strictly alone, such a department might prove a very good thing...
Another proposition, that of building a new track, which has been needed at Yale for some time, is also to be carried out. This will be equipped with a small stadium, and will make it possible to hold intercollegiate meets at New Haven, a thing never before done at the field. Work will be started on this project in June, and will be completed some time next year...
...There is one thing which however should be remembered. A college man, because he is a college man, is not thereby given a divine right to become an officer. Many of the best officers that I have known have not been college men, and I have known many college men who did not have the officer's qualifications. An officer is not merely a student; his primary qualification is leadership, and the power to command. In my opinion no officer should be commissioned until he has seen service as an enlisted man, and come to understand the view-point...