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...Archibald T. Davison '06. The Department has offered to contribute 30,000 francs toward the trip and to secure certain reductions in transportation rates. Whether its offer can be finally accepted depends on whether the Club can meet the remainder of the cost, which will be approximately fifty thousand dollars...
...geographies are usually incorrect on this point. Greenland, however, is an exception to the rules as it has a heavy rainfall and a high altitude, both of which factors tend to produce heavy glaciation. Nevertheless, on the great Canadian Archipelago there is no trace of glaciation for the past thousand years...
...complete program follows: 1. Medley, Arr' Rice Land of Old Black Joe, Donaldson Banjo Club. 2. Lullaby, Brahms Drake's Drum, Coleridge-Taylor Old Medley, Field Quartet. 3. Polichinelle, Rachmaninoff Mirage, A. L. Stelnert '22 A. L. Steinert '22. 4. Instrumental Specialty. 5. Pianologues. Messrs. Sargent, Taussig. Intermission. 6. Thousand and One Nights, Strauss Japanese Sandman, Whiting Mandolin Club. 7. Canzonetta, D'Ambrozia Liebesfreud, Kreisler H. E. Scott Jr. '22. R. S. Child '22, Accompanyist. 8. Negro Songs. Quartet. 9. Mason and Dixon Blues, Gottler Harvard Football Songs: Harvardiana, The Gridiron King. Soldiers Field, Banjo Club...
This is a direct appeal to our sense of humanity on a scale that has never been known before. No one can be deaf to it, least of all Harvard men, who have never been slack when such a call has come. Nearly ten thousand of them heard the voice of Duty and Patriotism and served in the Great War. The undergraduates and other students now may be counted upon to do their utmost. Harvard men do not allow little children to die of hunger, and whenever there has been a great cause, whether of Patriotism or of Humanity, Harvard...
...workingman does not consider that it is so. A 'pair-heater' on a furnace in a rolling mill may get only a little more than his helper but, in the eyes of the workingman, his position is vastly more desirable. Among the workers in a plant there are a thousand variations in pay, skill and privileges, emoluments that represent an almost infinite number of standings. These are vastly more important, in the opinion of the workingman, than the differences in the pay envelope. Few people realize what an enormous amount of trouble is caused by failure on the part...